2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Youth Ministry in the Great Lakes Region

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 an Associate Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 426 people earned their degree in youth ministry, making the major the 616th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 113 youth ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 youth ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,599 and $15,584 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in youth ministry. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their youth ministry program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Youth Ministry in the Great Lakes Region

1

Valor Christian College
Canal Winchester, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Valor Christian College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Valor Christian College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Canal Winchester, Ohio. It awarded 7 associates’s youth ministry degrees in 2021-2022.

Read more about Youth Ministry at Valor Christian College

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Great Lakes Christian College
Lansing, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Great Lakes Christian College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Youth Ministry Major in the Great Lakes Region. Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s youth ministry degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

Full Great Lakes Christian College Youth Ministry 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

• *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.