2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in New Jersey
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Religion/Religious Studies is the 189th most popular major in the country with 3,329 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across New Jersey, there were 46 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $39,823 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Jersey” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in religion/religious studies. That schools that top this list have a program in religion/religious studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Jersey
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Jersey”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in New Jersey
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Princeton University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Jersey list. Princeton University is a medium-sized school located in Princeton, New Jersey that handed out 6 masters’s religion degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Religion/Religious Studies at Princeton
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drew University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Jersey list. Drew University is located in Madison, New Jersey and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 masters’s religion degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Drew University Religion/Religious Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Jersey list. Located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, this large public school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s religion students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Rutgers New Brunswick Religion/Religious Studies Report
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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%.
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- *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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