2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bible/Biblical Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Rocky Mountains 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 230 bible/biblical studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 82 bible/biblical studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,140 and $21,982 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in bible/biblical studies. That schools that top this list have a program in bible/biblical studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bible/Biblical Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Montana Bible College
Bozeman, Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana Bible College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Bozeman, Montana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s bible studies degrees to 9 students in 2021-2022.

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 Bible/Biblical Studies at Montana Bible College

2

Nazarene Bible College
Colorado Springs, Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Nazarene Bible College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. This small school is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s bible studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Nazarene Bible College Bible/Biblical Studies Report

3

Colorado Christian University
Lakewood, Colorado

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado Christian University landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Lakewood, Colorado, and it awarded 62 bachelors’s bible studies degrees in 2021-2022.

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%.

Read full report on Bible/Biblical Studies at CCU

4

Northwest Nazarene University
Nampa, Idaho

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwest Nazarene University landed the #4 spot on the list. Nampa, Idaho is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s bible studies degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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 more about Bible/Biblical Studies at NNU

4

Boise Bible College
Boise, Idaho

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boise Bible College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Bible Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Boise Bible College is a small school located in Boise, Idaho that handed out 7 bachelors’s bible studies degrees 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.

Read more about Bible/Biblical Studies at Boise Bible College

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

• *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.