2023 Most Veteran Friendly in California for Religious Ed for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
31
Degrees Awarded
$26,766
Avg Salary
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Religious Ed for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Religious Education is the 216th most popular major in the country with 1,417 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, religious education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,694 and had an average of $27,203 in loans still to pay off.
Across California, there were 53 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,766 and $25,038 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 religious education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,566 and $21,995 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent religious education programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the religious education program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in California for Religious Ed for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for california bachelor’s degree vets studying religious ed.
Top 1 Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in California
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in California for Religious Ed for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Biola University landed the #1 spot on the list. Biola University is a private not-for-profit institution located in La Mirada, California. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Biola not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Religious Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list.Of the 5,815 students enrolled at Biola, 148 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 112 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $12,579. During this same period, 38 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Biola does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Biola]](/colleges/biola-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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