2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the New England Region (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Doctorate in the New England Region 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 the New England region, there were 19 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,889 and $109,372 respectively.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” 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 Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree religious ed students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the New England Region (With Aid)

#1

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$31,930 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston College landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston College is a fairly large school located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts that handed out 1 doctorate’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Boston College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Religious Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Boston College are $31,930.

Read full report on Religious Education at Boston College

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education (With Aid)

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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