2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Divinity/Ministry is the 113th most popular major in the country with 6,777 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 923 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 18 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,599 and $15,584 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in divinity/ministry. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their divinity/ministry program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree divinity studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Great Lakes Region

1

Ohio Christian University
Circleville, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio Christian University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. OCU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Circleville, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 18 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Divinity/Ministry at OCU

2

Allegheny Wesleyan College
Salem, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Allegheny Wesleyan College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Allegheny Wesleyan is a private not-for-profit institution located in Salem, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Allegheny Wesleyan College Divinity/Ministry 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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