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2022 Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
93 Degrees Awarded
$28,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor's in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 26,872 people earned their degree in theology and religious vocations, making the major the 25th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, theology and religious vocations graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $34,203 and had an average of $35,660 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 1,110 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,764 and $28,745 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 93 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in theology and religious vocations. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent theology and religious vocations programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the theology and religious vocations program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theology & Religious Vocations in the New England Region (With Aid)

#1

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid list. Boston College is located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 bachelors’s theology and religious vocations degrees to qualified students.

Boston College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Theology & Religious Vocations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Boston College is $35,899 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Theology & Religious Vocations students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Boston College Theology & Religious Vocations Report

#2

Gordon College

Wenham, Massachusetts
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Gordon College landed the #2 spot on the list. Gordon College is located in Wenham, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s theology and religious vocations degrees to qualified students.

Gordon College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Theology & Religious Vocations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $25,777 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Theology & Religious Vocations students with aid per year to attend Gordon College.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Theology & Religious Vocations at Gordon College

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid list. Standish, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s theology and religious vocations degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Saint Joseph’s Maine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Theology & Religious Vocations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $26,929 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Theology & Religious Vocations students with aid per year to attend Saint Joseph’s Maine.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Theology & Religious Vocations at Saint Joseph’s Maine

#4

Northpoint Bible College

Haverhill, Massachusetts
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northpoint Bible College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Theology & Religious Vocations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid list. Northpoint Bible College is located in Haverhill, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 32 bachelors’s theology and religious vocations degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our new england region bachelor’s degree theology & religious vocations students with aid list, Northpoint Bible College has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Theology & Religious Vocations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Northpoint Bible College is $24,482 for new england region bachelor’s degree theology & religious vocations students with aid.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Theology & Religious Vocations at Northpoint Bible 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

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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