2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Rocky Mountains Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 3,329 people earned their degree in religion/religious studies, making the major the 189th most popular in the United States.
Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 52 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 religion/religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,612 and $39,317 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in religion/religious studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in religion/religious studies.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Rocky Mountains Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Religion/Religious Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Denver Seminary landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Littleton, Colorado, and it awarded 0 masters’s religion degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Religion/Religious Studies at Denver Seminary
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Naropa University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Naropa University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boulder, Colorado. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Naropa University Religion/Religious Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Boulder, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s religion degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Full CU - Boulder Religion/Religious Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Denver. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Located in Denver, Colorado, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s religion students in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Religion/Religious Studies at DU
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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