2023 Best Value Religious Education Master's Degree Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Religious Education Master's Degree School for You
Religious Education is the #216 most popular major in the country with 1,417 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Religious Education Master's Degree Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 25 schools in the United States 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.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Top 10 Best Religious Education Master's Degree Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary the best value school in the United States for religious education students working on their master’s degree. 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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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Grand Canyon University is a great value for religious education students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit school with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Grand Canyon University are $11,538 per year.
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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Lincoln Christian University is a great value for religious education students working on their master’s degree. Located in the distant 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 tuition and fees each year.
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The excellent master’s degree programs at Faith International University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value religious education schools in the United States. Faith is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Tacoma.
Faith graduate students pay an average of $8,450 in tuition and fees each year.
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The excellent master’s degree programs at Crown College helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value religious education schools in the United States. Crown is a small private not-for-profit school located in the rural area of Saint Bonifacius.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Crown are $10,640 a year.
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Ashland University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree religious education programs. Ashland is a small private not-for-profit school located in the fringe town of Ashland.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Ashland are $6,972 a year.
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Dallas Theological Seminary came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the city of Dallas, DTS Dallas is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
DTS Dallas graduate students pay an average of $18,533 in tuition and fees each year.
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Bethel University Minnesota landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree religious education programs. Located in the large suburb of Saint Paul, Bethel University Minnesota is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
Bethel University Minnesota graduate students pay an average of $11,700 in tuition and fees each year.
In addition to its great value ranking, Bethel University Minnesota is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools list.
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Nazarene Theological Seminary came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Religious Education Master’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the city of Kansas City, Nazarene Theological Seminary is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Nazarene Theological Seminary are $10,210 per year.
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Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for religious education students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. Located in the city of New York, HUC - JIR is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
HUC - JIR graduate students pay an average of $27,035 in tuition and fees each year.
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Majors Related to Religious Ed
One of 7 majors within the area of study, religious education has other similar majors worth exploring.
Majors Similar to Religious Ed
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Theological & Ministerial Studies | 15,832 |
| Biblical Studies | 4,119 |
| Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries | 3,116 |
| Missionary Studies | 1,220 |
| Theology & Religious Vocations (Other) | 1,166 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 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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