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2023 Best Value Religious Education Master's Degree Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$13,296 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$37,050 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Religious Education Master's Degree School for You

Religious Education is the #117 most popular major in Illinois with 61 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Religious Education Master's Degree Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Illinois to see which master's degree 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 Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Religious Education Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Religious Education

Our analysis found Lincoln Christian University to be the best value school for religious education students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Illinois. Located in the town of Lincoln, Lincoln Christian College and Seminary is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Lincoln Christian College and Seminary graduate students pay an average of $8,812 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Trinity International University - Illinois. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. TIU Illinois is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Deerfield.

TIU Illinois graduate students pay an average of $17,780 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Religious Education at Trinity International University - Illinois

The excellent master’s degree programs at Wheaton College Illinois helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value religious education schools in Illinois. Located in the large suburb of Wheaton, Wheaton College Illinois is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Wheaton College Illinois graduate students pay an average of $18,096 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Religious Education at Wheaton College Illinois

Best Value Religious Education Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Religious Education Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 7
Ohio 36
Indiana 34

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 3 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).
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