2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 Lay Ministry Major in the New England 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 New England region, there were 131 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 85 lay ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in lay ministry. That schools that top this list have a program in lay ministry in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree lay ministry students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Lay Ministry in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the New England Region. Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary is a small school located in South Hamilton, Massachusetts that handed out 69 masters’s lay ministry degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. 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 more about Lay Ministry at Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint John’s Seminary. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the New England Region list. Saint John’s Seminary is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Brighton, Massachusetts. It awarded 9 masters’s lay ministry degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Full Saint John’s Seminary Lay Ministry Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Merrimack College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Lay Ministry Major in the New England Region list. Merrimack College is a medium-sized school located in North Andover, Massachusetts that handed out 7 masters’s lay ministry degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Lay Ministry at Merrimack College
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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.
