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Most Popular Schools for Religion/Religious Studies Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the nature of religious belief and specific religious and quasi-religious systems. Includes instruction in phenomenology; the sociology, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and art of religion; mythology; scriptural and textual studies; religious history and politics; and specific studies of particular faith communities and their behavior.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Liberty University 986 5% $40,075
2 Cairn University-Langhorne 56 20% $40,611
3 University of Virginia-Main Campus 52 1% $33,493
4 University of St Thomas 40 1% $56,664
5 Vanguard University of Southern California 39 7% $48,800
6 University of California-Santa Barbara 33 1% $36,659
7 Yale University 30 1% $73,900
8 University of Wisconsin-Madison 28 0% $26,025
9 Hartford Seminary 28 61% N/A
10 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 27 0% $23,694
11 Saint Leo University 27 1% $39,796
12 Baylor University 22 1% $62,527
13 Columbia University in the City of New York 22 0% $76,856
14 University of Georgia 21 0% $26,688
15 American Public University System 21 0% $6,880
16 University of Mobile 20 6% $39,380
17 Memphis Theological Seminary 20 47% N/A
18 Faith International University 20 28% $8,775
19 Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry 19 49% N/A
20 Arizona State University-Skysong 18 0% $27,521
21 Florida State University 17 0% $22,168
22 Georgia State University 17 0% $26,014
23 Andrews University 17 3% $40,566
24 Princeton University 17 1% $70,900
25 California State University-Long Beach 16 0% $24,738
26 Southern Adventist University 16 2% $34,990
27 Duke University 15 0% $74,339
28 University of Colorado Boulder 15 0% $31,044
29 CUNY Hunter College 15 0% $22,379
30 Naropa University 15 5% $50,810
31 Denver Seminary 15 9% N/A
32 University of Kansas 14 0% $26,566
33 Elim Bible Institute and College 14 23% $18,334
34 Appalachian State University 13 0% $19,194
35 California State University-Northridge 13 0% $22,969
36 University of Central Florida 13 0% $22,548
37 Charleston Southern University 13 2% $40,940
38 University of California-Davis 13 0% $35,177
39 University of Denver 13 0% $67,656
40 Carson-Newman University 13 2% $41,320
41 Oberlin College 13 2% $74,636
42 Southern Wesleyan University 13 3% $37,856
43 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 13 0% $23,811
44 Pepperdine University 13 1% $73,002
45 Carleton College 12 2% $71,325
46 Colgate University 12 2% $72,275
47 Wake Forest University 12 1% $71,638
48 East Texas Baptist University 12 4% $38,787
49 Rice University 12 1% $65,150
50 Florida International University 12 0% $23,506
51 Harvard University 12 0% $71,650
52 The University of Texas at Austin 12 0% $26,506
53 Faith Theological Seminary 12 71% $7,360
54 Humboldt State University 11 1% $24,811
55 St Olaf College 11 2% $60,590
56 Virginia Commonwealth University 11 0% $32,041
57 Furman University 11 2% $65,024
58 George Mason University 11 0% $30,284
59 Catholic University of America 11 1% $64,560
60 Georgetown University 11 0% $73,840
61 Guilford College 11 4% $52,770
62 Trinity International University-Florida 11 21% $14,680
63 Western Kentucky University 11 0% $21,840
64 Vanderbilt University 11 0% $70,146
65 Pfeiffer University 10 3% $44,960
66 La Sierra University 10 2% $48,267
67 Temple University 10 0% $33,004
68 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 10 0% $33,503
69 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 10 0% $22,639
70 Wabash College 10 5% $57,250
71 Bethel Seminary-St Paul 10 12% N/A
72 Ave Maria University 10 4% $36,261
73 Arizona State University-Tempe 9 0% $28,048
74 Utah State University 9 0% $20,504
75 University of South Florida-Main Campus 9 0% $23,320
76 Shorter University 9 2% $35,130
77 Augustana College 9 1% $54,907
78 Indiana University-Bloomington 9 0% $24,779
79 Kalamazoo College 9 3% $61,531
80 University of Oregon 9 0% $27,366
81 Gardner-Webb University 9 1% $46,420
82 Calvin College 9 1% $48,900
83 Claremont School of Theology 9 24% N/A
84 Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology 9 18% $41,282
85 Simmons College of Kentucky 9 33% $6,310
86 Missouri State University-Springfield 8 0% $21,782
87 University of California-Riverside 8 0% $35,242
88 Mount Vernon Nazarene University 8 2% $42,614
89 University of Florida 8 0% $21,211
90 Westmont College 8 2% $62,600
91 Mount Saint Mary's University 8 1% $61,287
92 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 8 0% $27,638
93 St John's Seminary 8 35% N/A
94 Seminario Evangelico de Puerto Rico 8 28% N/A
95 Trinity International University-Illinois 8 2% $46,510
96 Brite Divinity School 8 26% N/A
97 El Paso Community College 7 0% $4,089
98 University of North Carolina at Greensboro 7 0% $21,297
99 Young Harris College 7 3% $43,389
100 Emory University 7 0% $69,502

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Religion/Religious Studies program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.