by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Bible/Biblical Studies is the 182nd most popular major in the country with 4,021 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 390 bible/biblical studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 211 bible/biblical studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 12 colleges that offered a degree in bible/biblical studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in bible/biblical studies.
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The bible studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree bible studies students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Davis College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Pottersville, New York, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 14 degrees to qualified bachelors’s bible studies students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lancaster Bible College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Lancaster Bible College is a small school located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania that handed out 125 bachelors’s bible studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Bible/Biblical Studies at Lancaster Bible College
Out of the 12 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clarks Summit University landed the #3 spot on the list. CSU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. It awarded 20 bachelors’s bible studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Bible/Biblical Studies at Clarks Summit University
Out of the 12 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cairn University landed the #4 spot on the list. Langhorne, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s bible studies degrees to 22 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pillar College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Pillar College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Newark, New Jersey. It awarded 6 bachelors’s bible studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Houghton College landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Houghton is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Houghton, New York. It awarded 3 bachelors’s bible studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Waynesburg University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Waynesburg is a private not-for-profit institution located in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Bible/Biblical Studies at Waynesburg University
Nyack College came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. New York, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s bible studies degrees to 5 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Geneva College ranked #9 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Geneva College is a small school located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania that handed out 6 bachelors’s bible studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Messiah University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s bible studies degrees to 5 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Eastern University came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. This medium-sized school is located in Saint Davids, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s bible studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Roberts Wesleyan College ranked #12 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Rochester, New York, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s bible studies students in 2021-2022.
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%.
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