Religious Studies at California State University - Northridge

If you plan to study religious studies, take a look at what California State University - Northridge has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

CSUN is located in Northridge, California and approximately 40,381 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 12 religion majors received their bachelor's degree from CSUN.

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.

CSUN Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

CSUN Religious Studies Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The religion major at CSUN 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
	35

How Much Do Religion Graduates from CSUN Make?

The median salary of religion students who receive their bachelor's degree at CSUN is $25,606. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $28,029 for all religion students.

Religion Student Demographics at CSUN

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the religion majors at California State University - Northridge.

CSUN Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students earned a bachelor's degree in religion from CSUN. About 58% of these graduates were women and the other 42% were men. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at CSUN since its program graduates 25% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 54% 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 California State University - Northridge with a bachelor's in religion.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

CSUN 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 CA, the home state for California State University - Northridge.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Philosophy and Religion Professors	2,220	$114,370
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	1,280	$96,200

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 Cbl62 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.