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2023 Best Value Religious Education Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$13,422 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Religious Education Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for religious ed students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Religious Education Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Religious Education Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Religious Education

Our 2023 rankings named Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary the best value school in the United States for religious education students working on their graduate certificate. MBTS is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Kansas City.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at MBTS are $6,950 a year.

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Out of the 2 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Chicago landed the # 2 spot on the list. Loyola Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Loyola Chicago are $19,894 per year.

Read full report on Religious Education at Loyola University Chicago

Religious Education by Region

View the Best Value Religious Education Graduate Certificate Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
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.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to RichardF.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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