2022 Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Divinity/Ministry is the 115th most popular major in the country with 6,905 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 565 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 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.

More Ways to Rank Divinity/Ministry Schools

The divinity studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region”.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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

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

#1

The King's University

Southlake, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$24,344 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The King’s University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Southlake, Texas, and it awarded 4 associates’s divinity studies degrees in 2019-2020.

TKU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Divinity/Ministry Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend The King’s University is $24,344 for southwest region associate degree divinity studies students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Divinity/Ministry at TKU

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry

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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