Best Theology & Religious Vocations Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that made our Best Theology & Religious Vocations Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Theology & Religious Vocations School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of theology & religious vocations for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on theology & religious vocations students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of theology & religious vocations students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for theology & religious vocations to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized theology & religious vocations related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for theology & religious vocations students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately , we do not have sufficient info to create a ranking of the top quality colleges for theology & religious vocations in the Middle Atlantic Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer theology & religious vocations and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Theology & Religious Vocations rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations ranking.

Best Theology & Religious Vocations Colleges by State

Explore the best theology & religious vocations schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	30	89
Maryland	29	6
Pennsylvania	29	82
New Jersey	28	49
District of Columbia	24	80

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Theology & Religious Vocations Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Theological & Ministerial Studies	124
Theology & Religious Vocations (Other)	89
Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries	23
Biblical Studies	7
Religious Education	5

Majors Similar to Theology & Religious Vocations

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Social Sciences	832
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	287
English Language & Literature	225
History	173
Philosophy & Religious Studies	161
Communication & Journalism	88
Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies	84
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	24
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	19

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Daderot. More about our data sources and methodologies.