2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Plains States Region
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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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 6,777 people earned their degree in divinity/ministry, making the major the 113th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 754 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,161 and $15,228 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Plains States Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, City Vision University landed the #1 spot on the list. Kansas City, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s divinity studies degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Divinity/Ministry at City Vision University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary landed the #2 spot on the list. MBTS is a private not-for-profit institution located in Kansas City, Missouri. The school has a small population, and it awarded 206 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Read full report on Divinity/Ministry at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
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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%.
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- *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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