2022 Best Value Church Planting Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Church Planting Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 7 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, church planting is the most popular major in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 church planting graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Church Planting Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in church planting. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great church planting programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the church planting program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Church Planting Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Church Planting Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Church Planting (With Aid)

#1

Criswell College

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$14,137 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Church Planting Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Criswell College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s church planting students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree church planting students with aid list, Criswell College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Church Planting Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Criswell College is $14,137 for Bachelor’s Degree Church Planting students with aid.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Church Planting at Criswell College

#2

Ozark Christian College

Joplin, Missouri

#2 in overall quality

$15,138 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Church Planting Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Ozark Christian College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Joplin, Missouri, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s church planting students in 2019-2020.

Ozark Christian College also made our “Best Church Planting Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Ozark Christian College is $15,138 for Bachelor’s Degree Church Planting students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Ozark Christian College Church Planting Report

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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