Religious Education isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #216 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Religious Education Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 121 degrees in religious education annually.
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 Religious Education Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the religious ed degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student pursuing a degree in religious education needs to take a look at Wheaton College Illinois. Wheaton College Illinois is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Wheaton.
Religious Education degree recipients from Wheaton College Illinois earn a boost of about $6,998 above the average income of religious education majors.
Moody Bible Institute is a great choice for students interested in a degree in religious education. Moody Theological Seminary and Graduate School is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.
Soon after graduation, religious ed degree recipients usually earn about $30,671 in their early careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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