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2022 Best Value Religion Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
17 Degrees Awarded
$27,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Religion Schools for a Master's in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Religion Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 9,704 people earned their degree in religious studies, making the major the 115th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, religious studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,163 and had an average of $28,712 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 83 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $26,870 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,298 and $45,299 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great religious studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the religious studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Religion Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religion Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Studies (Income $0-$30k) in Iowa

#1

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religion Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k list. This large school is located in Iowa City, Iowa, and it awarded 2 masters’s religion degrees in 2019-2020.

Iowa also made our “Best Religious Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Iowa are $27,613, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Religious Studies at University of Iowa

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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