2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Lay Ministry in the Far Western US Region

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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Lay Ministry is the 630th most popular major in the country with 677 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 47 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in lay ministry. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their lay ministry program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Lay Ministry in the Far Western US Region

1

Warner Pacific University
Portland, Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Warner Pacific University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Far Western US Region list. Warner Pacific University is located in Portland, Oregon and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s lay ministry degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Warner Pacific Lay Ministry Report

2

Multnomah University
Portland, Oregon

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Multnomah University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Portland, Oregon, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s lay ministry 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%.

Read full report on Lay Ministry at Multnomah University

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.