2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k

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 “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Minnesota, there were 48 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,100 and $30,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,396 and $40,953 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in religious education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great religious education programs and cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education (Income $30-$48k) in Minnesota

#1

Bethel University Minnesota

Saint Paul, Minnesota

$11,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Bethel University Minnesota landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s religious ed students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our minnesota master’s degree religious ed students whose families make $30-$48k list, Bethel University Minnesota has also earned the #0 rank in our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Bethel University Minnesota are $11,700, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

Crown College

Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$10,270 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Crown College landed the #2 spot on the list. Crown College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota. It awarded 19 masters’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Crown did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Crown are $10,270, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Religious Education at Crown College

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education (Income $30-$48k)

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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