2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 1,292 people earned their degree in religious education, making the major the 216th most popular in the United States. 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 Southwest region, there were 435 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,606 and $28,062 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 110 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree religious ed students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious Education in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s religious ed degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Religious Education at Dallas Theological Seminary
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Baptist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s religious ed degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.
Read full report on Religious Education at Dallas Baptist University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Grand Canyon University landed the #3 spot on the list. Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit institution located in Phoenix, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 103 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Religious Education at Grand Canyon University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Dallas. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Ed Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Irving, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s religious ed students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Religious Education at University of Dallas
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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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