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2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid

2 Ranked Colleges
42 Degrees Awarded
$22,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor's in Ohio For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid” 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 Ohio, there were 68 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,200 and $23,834 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 42 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,281 and $26,151 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in Ohio (With Aid)

#1

Malone University

Canton, Ohio
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Malone University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Canton, Ohio, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Malone, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Ohio” ranking. It costs about $19,897 for ohio bachelor’s degree religious ed students with aid per year to attend Malone.

Full Malone University Religious Education Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Franciscan University of Steubenville. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid. Franciscan University of Steubenville is a small school located in Steubenville, Ohio that handed out 26 bachelors’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Franciscan U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Ohio” ranking. It costs about $24,918 for Ohio Bachelor’s Degree Religious Ed students with aid per year to attend Franciscan University of Steubenville.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Franciscan University of Steubenville Religious Education Report

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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