by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Religious Education is the 216th most popular major in the country with 1,292 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , religious education graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $30,694 and had an average of $27,141 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 133 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in religious education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in religious education.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Yeshiva Gedolah Imrei Yosef D’spinka landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Brooklyn, New York, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s religious ed degrees in 2021-2022.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Messiah University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Messiah is a private not-for-profit institution located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion landed the #3 spot on the list. Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion is a small school located in Brooklyn, New York that handed out 0 bachelors’s religious ed degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington Adventist University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Takoma Park, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s religious ed degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend La Roche University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s religious ed students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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