2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in California

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 7,238 people earned their degree in divinity/ministry, making the major the 113th most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 470 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,566 and $21,995 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in California” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in divinity/ministry. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in divinity/ministry.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in California

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in California

1

The Master's University and Seminary
Santa Clarita, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The Master’s University and Seminary. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in California. The Master’s University is a small school located in Santa Clarita, California that handed out 4 bachelors’s divinity studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Divinity/Ministry at The Master’s University and Seminary

2

Fresno Pacific University
Fresno, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Fresno Pacific University landed the #2 spot on the list. Fresno Pacific is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Fresno, California. It awarded 5 bachelors’s divinity studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Divinity/Ministry at Fresno Pacific 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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