If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in theology & religious vocations, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #28 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Theology & Religious Vocations Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 472 bachelor's degrees in theology & religious vocations during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to theology & religious vocations students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of theology & religious vocations students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt theology & religious vocations students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized theology & religious vocations related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for theology & religious vocations students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Theology & Religious Vocations Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Theology & Religious Vocations Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee list, to help you choose the best school for you.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
