Best Philosophy & Religious Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Great Lakes Region that made our Best Philosophy & Religious Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Philosophy & Religious Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

The philosophy & religious studies doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality philosophy & religious studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to philosophy & religious studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of philosophy & religious studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt philosophy & religious studies students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized philosophy & religious studies related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for philosophy & religious studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately , we did not have enough facts to form a ranking of the quality schools for philosophy & religious studies in the Great Lakes Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Great Lakes Region that both offer philosophy & religious studies and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Philosophy & Religious Studies rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Philosophy & Religious Studies ranking.

Best Philosophy & Religious Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best philosophy & religious studies schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Indiana	29	21
Michigan	29	11
Ohio	29	11
Illinois	29	34
Wisconsin	27	11

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Philosophy & Religious Studies Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Philosophy	77
Religious Studies	17
Other Philosophy & Religious Studies	2

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Social Sciences	611
Theology & Religious Vocations	343
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	220
English Language & Literature	215
History	132
Communication & Journalism	122
Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies	58
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	40
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	5

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.