2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in Pennsylvania

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” 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 Pennsylvania, there were 261 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 $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in divinity/ministry. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great divinity/ministry programs and cost less that 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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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 a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in Pennsylvania

#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 Pennsylvania list. University of Valley Forge is a small school located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania that handed out 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 Pennsylvania” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Valley Forge is $20,636 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Divinity Studies students.

Read full report on Divinity/Ministry at University of Valley Forge

#2

Cairn University

Langhorne, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$21,859 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Cairn University landed the #2 spot on the list. Cairn University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. It awarded 2 bachelors’s divinity studies degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Cairn, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Divinity/Ministry Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Cairn University is $21,859 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree divinity studies students.

Full Cairn University Divinity/Ministry Report

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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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