2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry (Income $0-$30k) in Illinois

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 6,905 people earned their degree in divinity/ministry, making the major the 115th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 335 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent divinity/ministry programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the divinity/ministry program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry (Income $0-$30k) in Illinois

#1

Olivet Nazarene University

Bourbonnais, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$15,806 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Olivet Nazarene University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Divinity Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k list. Olivet Nazarene is located in Bourbonnais, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s divinity studies degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Olivet Nazarene, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Divinity/Ministry Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. It costs about $15,806 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Divinity Studies students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Olivet Nazarene University.

The low student loan default rate of 3.4% 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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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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