2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in Virginia (With Aid)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid” 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 Getting Aid” 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The religious ed school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid”.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid

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

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

#1

Regent University

Virginia Beach, Virginia

$17,052 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Regent University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid list. Regent is a fairly large school located in Virginia Beach, Virginia that handed out 1 masters’s religious ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Regent also took the #0 spot in our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Regent University are $17,052, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Regent Religious Education Report

#2

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$8,349 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$35,416 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Ed Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Lynchburg, Virginia, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 20 degrees to qualified masters’s religious ed students in 2019-2020.

Liberty University also made our “Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Liberty University are $8,349.

Full Liberty University Religious Education Report

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• Best Value Master’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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