Religious Studies at Amherst College

If you are interested in studying religious studies, you may want to check out the program at Amherst College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and approximately 1,745 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 4 religion majors received their bachelor's degree from Amherst.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Religious Studies section at the bottom of this page.

Amherst Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Amherst Religious Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the religion progam at Amherst compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The religion major at Amherst is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Religious Studies. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	135
Most Focused Religious Studies Schools	187
Most Popular Religious Studies Schools	274

Religion Student Demographics at Amherst

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the religion majors at Amherst College.

Amherst Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 4 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from Amherst in 2020-2021, 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Amherst since its program graduates 16% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 37% more racial-ethnic minorities in its religion bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's in religion.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Amherst also has a doctoral program available in religion. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Philosophy

Careers That Religion Grads May Go Into

A degree in religion can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Amherst College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Philosophy and Religion Professors	700	$84,290
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	470	$98,380

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.