2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Religious Ed Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking.

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 Southwest region, there were 449 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,180 and $41,327 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Religious Ed Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in religious education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent religious education 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 religious education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Religious Ed Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Religious Ed Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region religious ed students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Religious Education (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Grand Canyon University

Phoenix, Arizona

#3 in overall quality

$21,380 Average Net Price

$44,802 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand Canyon University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Religious Ed Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out ’s religious ed degrees to 350 students in 2019-2020.

Grand Canyon University also took the #3 spot in our “Best Religious Education Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $21,380 for Southwest Region Religious Ed students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Grand Canyon University.

Full Grand Canyon University Religious Education Report

#2

Dallas Baptist University

Dallas, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$26,055 Average Net Price

$39,022 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dallas Baptist University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Religious Ed Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Located in Dallas, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 32 degrees to qualified ’s religious ed students in 2019-2020.

DBU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Religious Education Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $26,055 for southwest region religious ed students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend DBU.

Read more about Religious Education at Dallas Baptist University

• Best Value Colleges for Religious Education (Income $48-$75k)

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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