2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in Washington

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in Washington” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Divinity/Ministry is the 113th most popular major in the country with 7,238 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Washington, there were 32 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,852 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in Washington” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in divinity/ministry. That schools that top this list have a program in divinity/ministry in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in Washington

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in Washington

1

Faith International University
Tacoma, Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Faith International University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in Washington. Faith is a small school located in Tacoma, Washington that handed out 14 masters’s divinity studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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2

The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology
Seattle, Washington

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in Washington list. The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology is a private not-for-profit institution located in Seattle, Washington. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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%.

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Seattle University
Seattle, Washington

#2 overall quality in Washington

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Seattle University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Seattle, Washington, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s divinity studies students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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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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