2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Theology & Religious Vocations for an Associate
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$21,700
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans 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 “Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Theology & Religious Vocations for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Theology & Religious Vocations is the 26th most popular major in the country with 27,459 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, theology and religious vocations graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,020 and had an average of $26,322 in loans still to pay off.
Across Illinois, there were 1,807 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,733 and $16,129 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 12 theology and religious vocations graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,626 and $15,120 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent theology and religious vocations programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the theology and religious vocations program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Theology & Religious Vocations for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Theology & Religious Vocations for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Theology & Religious Vocations Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Illinois
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Moody Bible Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Illinois for Theology & Religious Vocations for an Associate list. Moody Bible Institute is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 8 associates’s theology and religious vocations degrees in 2020-2021.
Moody Theological Seminary and Graduate School did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Theology & Religious Vocations Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” list.Our most recent data shows that 3 of the 2,870 students enrolled at Moody Theological Seminary and Graduate School were GI Bill® students, of which 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $125. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Moody Bible Institute]](/colleges/moody-bible-institute/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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