2022 Best Value Colleges for Religious Education in South Carolina (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Religious Ed Schools in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

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 South Carolina, there were 10 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Religious Ed Schools in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Religious Ed Schools in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religious Ed Schools in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Religious Education in South Carolina (With Aid)

#1

Columbia International University

Columbia, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$18,004 Average Net Price

$23,800 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Religious Ed Schools in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia International University landed the #1 spot on the list. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s religious ed degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

CIU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Religious Education Schools in South Carolina” list. The yearly cost to attend CIU is $18,004 for south carolina religious ed students with aid.

Read more about Religious Education at CIU

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• Best Value 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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