2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 6,905 people earned their degree in divinity/ministry, making the major the 115th most popular in the United States.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 127 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,967 and $17,711 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality divinity/ministry programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the divinity/ministry program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Nazarene Bible College

Colorado Springs, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Nazarene Bible College landed the #1 spot on the list. Colorado Springs, Colorado is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s divinity studies degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Nazarene Bible College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Divinity/Ministry Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Divinity/Ministry at Nazarene Bible College

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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