2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 627 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 divinity/ministry graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in divinity/ministry. That schools that top this list have a program in divinity/ministry in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Divinity/Ministry in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Valley Forge
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Valley Forge. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. University of Valley Forge is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. It awarded 10 bachelors’s divinity studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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%.

Read more about Divinity/Ministry at University of Valley Forge

2

Cairn University
Langhorne, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cairn University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Divinity Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s divinity studies students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Divinity/Ministry at Cairn

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.

Credits

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