2022 Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 770 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in divinity/ministry. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality divinity/ministry programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the divinity/ministry program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

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Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree divinity studies students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

University of Valley Forge

Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$20,636 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Valley Forge. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. UVF is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. It awarded 17 bachelors’s divinity studies degrees in 2019-2020.

UVF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Divinity/Ministry Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $20,636 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Divinity Studies students per year to attend University of Valley Forge.

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#2

Cairn University

Langhorne, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$21,859 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cairn University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s divinity studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Cairn did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Divinity/Ministry Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $21,859 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree divinity studies students per year to attend Cairn University.

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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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