When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in religious education sits in the middle of the road, ranking #183 out of 363 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for religious education students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 290 bachelor's degrees in religious education during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to religious education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other religious education students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt religious education 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 religious education related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for religious education students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Religious Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in religious education needs to take a look at Dallas Baptist University. DBU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Dallas.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the religious ed program state that they receive average early career wages of $32,426.
Grand Canyon University is a great choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in religious education. Located in the large city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit university with a very large student population.
Religious Education bachelor's degree recipients from Grand Canyon University earn a boost of about $2,424 over the typical earnings of religious education graduates.
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).
