Religious Studies at Hope College

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

Hope is located in Holland, Michigan and approximately 3,061 students attend the school each year. Of the 831 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Hope College in 2021, 12 of them were religious studies majors.

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.

Hope Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Hope Religious Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the religion progam at Hope 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 Hope 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 Popular Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	44
Most Focused Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	68
Most Focused Religious Studies Schools	120

Religion Student Demographics at Hope

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

Hope Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 12 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from Hope in 2020-2021, 42% were men and 58% were women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Hope since its program graduates 25% more women than average.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in religion at Hope are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	9
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Hope 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 MI, the home state for Hope College.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Philosophy and Religion Professors	780	$77,990

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 Trenner1945 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.