Religious Studies at Birmingham Southern College

If you plan to study religious studies, take a look at what Birmingham Southern College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

BSC is located in Birmingham, Alabama and approximately 1,129 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 10 students received a bachelor's degree in religion from BSC.

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.

BSC Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

BSC Religious Studies Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The religion major at BSC 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	23
Most Focused Religious Studies Schools	64
Most Popular Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	68
Most Popular Religious Studies Schools	120

Religion Student Demographics at BSC

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

BSC Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

The religion program at BSC awarded 10 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 20% of these degrees went to men with the other 80% going to women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at BSC since its program graduates 46% more women than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in religion at BSC are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

BSC 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 AL, the home state for Birmingham Southern College.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Philosophy and Religion Professors	220	$63,930

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 Jwrandolph under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.