2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Rocky Mountains Region

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 “Most Well Attended Divinity Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 108 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 70 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Divinity Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in divinity/ministry. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular divinity/ministry programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Divinity Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Divinity Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Denver Seminary
Littleton, Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Denver Seminary. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Divinity Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s. This small school is located in Littleton, Colorado, and it awarded 39 masters’s divinity studies 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 2.7% 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 more about Divinity/Ministry at Denver Seminary

2

Iliff School of Theology
Denver, Colorado

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Divinity Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Iliff School of Theology landed the #2 spot on the list. Iliff School of Theology is a small school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 24 masters’s divinity studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Divinity/Ministry at Iliff School of Theology

3

Northwest Nazarene University
Nampa, Idaho

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Divinity Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwest Nazarene University landed the #3 spot on the list. NNU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nampa, Idaho. It awarded 7 masters’s divinity studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.

Read full report on Divinity/Ministry at Northwest Nazarene University

• Most Popular Master’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.

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