Religious Studies at Loras College

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

Loras is located in Dubuque, Iowa and has a total student population of 1,404. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in religion from Loras.

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.

Loras Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Loras Religious Studies Rankings

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

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 Loras 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	78
Most Focused Religious Studies Schools	131

Religion Student Demographics at Loras

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

Loras Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 20% of religion bachelor's degrees went to men and 80% went to women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Loras since its program graduates 46% more women than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in religion at Loras 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 Loras College with a bachelor's in religion.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Loras 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 IA, the home state for Loras College.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Philosophy and Religion Professors	360	$79,510

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 Bahua at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.