2025 Best Religious Education Schools in the Southwest Region
2Colleges in the Southwest Region
435Religious Ed Degrees Awarded
$36,869Avg Early-Career Salary
Religious Education is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #216 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Religious Education Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 435 degrees in religious education annually.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Religious Education Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Religious Education in the Southwest Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the religious ed degree levels they offer.
Grand Canyon University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in religious education. Located in the city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit university with a very large student population.
Religious Education degree recipients from Grand Canyon University get an earnings boost of around $2,928 above the average income of religious education graduates.
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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