2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theological & Ministerial Studies in Arkansas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Theology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Theological & Ministerial Studies is the 55th most popular major in the country with 15,051 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, theological and ministerial studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,911 and had an average of $41,597 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arkansas, there were 33 theological and ministerial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 theological and ministerial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality theological and ministerial studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the theological and ministerial studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank Theological & Ministerial Studies Schools

The theology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Theology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Theology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Theology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theological & Ministerial Studies in Arkansas

#1

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$19,375 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harding University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas list. Located in Searcy, Arkansas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s theology students in 2019-2020.

Harding did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Theological & Ministerial Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. It costs about $19,375 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Theology students per year to attend Harding.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Theological & Ministerial Studies at Harding 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

• *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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