2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in California
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Ranked Colleges
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 California, there were 56 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,766 and $24,969 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,943 and $148,774 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in California” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in religious education. That schools that top this list have a program in religious education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in California
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in California”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in California
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Biola University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in California list. Biola is a private not-for-profit institution located in La Mirada, California. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Religious Education at Biola
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Azusa Pacific University landed the #2 spot on the list. Azusa, California is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s religious ed degrees to 9 students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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