2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Philosophy & Religion in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$33,600
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Philosophy & Religion is the 833rd most popular major in the country with 186 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 19 philosophy & religion graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 philosophy & religion graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in philosophy & religion. That schools that top this list have a program in philosophy & religion in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
Top 9 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Philosophy & Religion in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Vincent College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Saint Vincent is a private not-for-profit institution located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
Full Saint Vincent Philosophy & Religion Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pace University - New York. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in New York, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s philosophy & religion students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.
Read full report on Philosophy & Religion at Pace University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Old Westbury. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. SUNY Old Westbury is located in Old Westbury, New York and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s philosophy & religion degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Philosophy & Religion at SUNY Old Westbury
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stockton University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Stockton University is a medium-sized school located in Galloway, New Jersey that handed out 6 bachelors’s philosophy & religion degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Stockton State Philosophy & Religion Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colgate University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Colgate is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Hamilton, New York. It awarded 0 bachelors’s philosophy & religion degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. 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 full report on Philosophy & Religion at Colgate
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marist College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Poughkeepsie, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s philosophy & religion students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Philosophy & Religion at Marist
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, St. Joseph’s College - New York landed the #5 spot on the list. St. Joseph’s College - New York is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Brooklyn, New York. It awarded 1 bachelors’s philosophy & religion degrees in 2021-2022.
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%.
Read more about Philosophy & Religion at SJC
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Marymount Manhattan College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. MMC is a small school located in New York, New York that handed out 0 bachelors’s philosophy & religion degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read full report on Philosophy & Religion at Marymount Manhattan College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kean University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This fairly large school is located in Union, New Jersey, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s philosophy & religion degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Kean University Philosophy & Religion Report
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
- *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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