2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 742 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” 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 the Middle Atlantic Region

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

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

1

University of Valley Forge
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Valley Forge landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 12 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s divinity studies students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Divinity/Ministry at UVF

2

Cairn University
Langhorne, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cairn University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Langhorne, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s divinity studies degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Divinity/Ministry at Cairn University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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

• *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.

Credits

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