2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Theological & Ministerial Studies in the Southwest Region

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Theological & Ministerial Studies is the 63rd most popular major in the country with 15,832 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, theological and ministerial studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $40,590 and had an average of $26,272 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,105 theological and ministerial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,762 and $33,437 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 theological and ministerial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in theological and ministerial studies. That schools that top this list have a program in theological and ministerial studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree theology students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Theological & Ministerial Studies in the Southwest Region

1

Christ Mission College
San-Antonio, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Christ Mission College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology Major in the Southwest Region. Christ Mission College is a small school located in San-Antonio, Texas that handed out 2 associates’s theology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Christ Mission College Theological & Ministerial Studies Report

2

The King's University
Southlake, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The King’s University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology Major in the Southwest Region. TKU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Southlake, Texas. It awarded 2 associates’s theology degrees in 2020-2021.

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.

Full TKU Theological & Ministerial Studies Report

3

Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Theology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Wesleyan University landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and it awarded 4 associates’s theology degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Theological & Ministerial Studies at OKWU or OWU

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Theological & Ministerial Studies

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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