Religious Studies at Kentucky Wesleyan College

What traits are you looking for in a religion school? To help you decide if Kentucky Wesleyan College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's religion program.

Wesleyan is located in Owensboro, Kentucky and approximately 887 students attend the school each year. Of the 171 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 2021, 3 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.

Wesleyan Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Online Classes Are Available at Wesleyan

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Wesleyan offers distance education options for religion at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Wesleyan Religious Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks religion programs across the country. The following shows how Wesleyan performed in these rankings.

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 Wesleyan 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 Online Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	14
Most Popular Online Religious Studies Schools	19
Most Focused Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	54
Most Focused Religious Studies Schools	105
Most Popular Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	249
Most Popular Religious Studies Schools	309

Religion Student Demographics at Wesleyan

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

Wesleyan Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 3 religion students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Wesleyan, about 100% were men and 0% were women.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in religion at Wesleyan 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 Kentucky Wesleyan College with a bachelor's in religion.

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

Wesleyan also has a doctoral program available in religion. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

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 KY, the home state for Kentucky Wesleyan College.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Philosophy and Religion Professors	260	$70,730
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	100	$66,740

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 Matthewru under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.