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2023 Best Religious Education Graduate Certificate Schools

2 Colleges
$19,000 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Religious Education Graduate Certificate School for You

Religious Education is the #161 most popular major in the country with 687 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Religious Education Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best graduate certificate programs for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

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2023 Best Religious Education Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

The colleges and universities below are the best for religious ed majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Top Schools for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Religious Education

Our 2023 rankings named Loyola University Chicago the best school in the United States for religious education students working on their graduate certificate. Loyola Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

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Out of the 2 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary landed the # 2 spot on the list. MBTS is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Kansas City.

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Religious Education by Region

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Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 7 majors within the area of study, religious education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Theological & Ministerial Studies 12,534
Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries 1,624
Biblical Studies 1,052
Theology & Religious Vocations (Other) 777
Missionary Studies 423

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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 the rest 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).
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