2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

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 Religious Ed Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Religious Education is the 215th most popular major in the country with 1,336 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, religious education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,663 and had an average of $31,603 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 108 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,100 and $30,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality religious education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the religious education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education (Income $0-$30k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Crown College

Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$26,128 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Crown College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified associates’s religious ed students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region associate degree religious ed students whose families make $0-$30k list, Crown has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Religious Education Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $26,128 for plains states region associate degree religious ed students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Crown College.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Religious Education (Income $0-$30k)

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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