2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $75-$110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Illinois, there were 139 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,625 and $26,436 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 39 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in religious education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality religious education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the religious education program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education (Income $75-$110k) in Illinois

#1

Wheaton College Illinois

Wheaton, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$17,424 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$27,476 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wheaton College Illinois. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $75-$110k list. Wheaton College Illinois is a small school located in Wheaton, Illinois that handed out 16 masters’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Wheaton College Illinois not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Wheaton College Illinois are $17,424, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Religious Education at Wheaton College Illinois

#2

Trinity International University - Illinois

Deerfield, Illinois

$17,780 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trinity International University - Illinois. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Illinois For Those Making $75-$110k list. TIU Illinois is a small school located in Deerfield, Illinois that handed out 6 masters’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

TIU Illinois also made our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Trinity International University - Illinois are $17,780, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full TIU Illinois Religious Education Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education (Income $75-$110k) in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education (Income $75-$110k)

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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