2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Virginia

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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 Virginia, there were 61 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,007 and $48,041 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,688 and $121,343 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Virginia” 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 Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Virginia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in Virginia

1

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

#13 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Virginia list. Liberty University is a large school located in Lynchburg, Virginia that handed out 38 doctorate’s religious ed degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Religious Education at Liberty University

2

Union Presbyterian Seminary
Richmond, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Union Presbyterian Seminary. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in Virginia. Union Presbyterian is a small school located in Richmond, Virginia that handed out 9 doctorate’s religious ed degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Union Presbyterian Religious Education Report

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

• *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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