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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 Virginia, there were 50 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,500 and $53,516 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 35 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

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

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$8,349 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$35,416 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #1 spot on the list. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s religious ed degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

Liberty University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Liberty University are $8,349, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Regent University

Virginia Beach, Virginia

$17,052 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Regent University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k. Virginia Beach, Virginia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s religious ed degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Regent not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Regent University are $17,052, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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