Religious Studies at Georgetown University

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 Georgetown University stacks up to those at other schools.

Georgetown is located in Washington, District of Columbia and approximately 19,371 students attend the school each year.

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.

Georgetown Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Georgetown Religious Studies Rankings

The religion major at Georgetown 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.

There were 3 students who received their doctoral degrees in religion, making the school the #25 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Religion Student Demographics at Georgetown

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

Georgetown Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 14% of religion bachelor's degrees went to men and 86% went to women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% women. So female students are more repesented at Georgetown since its program graduates 56% more women than average.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in religion at Georgetown are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% 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 Georgetown University with a bachelor's in religion.

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

Concentrations Within Religious Studies

The following religion concentations are available at Georgetown University. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Georgetown University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Religion/Religious Studies	13
Other Religion/Religious Studies	3
Islamic Studies	1

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 DC, the home state for Georgetown University.

Occupation	Jobs in DC	Average Salary in DC
Philosophy and Religion Professors	530	$84,880

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 Lucas Cantor under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.