2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

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General Philosophy & Religious Studies is the 320th most popular major in the country with 178 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, philosophy and religious studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 66 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent philosophy and religious studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the philosophy and religious studies program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Wake Forest, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$5,830 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Philosophy & Religion Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Wake Forest, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s philosophy and religion degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

SEBTS did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Philosophy & Religious Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary are $5,830, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Philosophy & Religious Studies at SEBTS

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies (With Aid)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Fyodor Bronnikov.

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