Religious Studies at Augustana College

Every religious studies school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the religion program at Augustana College stacks up to those at other schools.

Augustana is located in Rock Island, Illinois and has a total student population of 2,389. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in religion from Augustana.

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.

Augustana Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Augustana Religious Studies Rankings

The religion major at Augustana 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.

Religion Student Demographics at Augustana

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

Augustana Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 religion majors earned their bachelor's degree from Augustana. Of these graduates, 40% were men and 60% were women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Augustana since its program graduates 26% more women than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in religion at Augustana are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% 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 Augustana College with a bachelor's in religion.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Augustana 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 IL, the home state for Augustana College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Philosophy and Religion Professors	960	$81,200
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	450	$74,010

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 Smallbones under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.