Religious Studies at Pacific Lutheran University

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

PLU is located in Tacoma, Washington and approximately 2,907 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 8 religion majors received their bachelor's degree from PLU.

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.

PLU Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

PLU Religious Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks religion programs across the country. The following shows how PLU 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 PLU 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	112

Religion Student Demographics at PLU

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

PLU Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 38% of religion bachelor's degrees went to men and 63% went to women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at PLU since its program graduates 29% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 37% 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 Pacific Lutheran University with a bachelor's in religion.

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

PLU 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 WA, the home state for Pacific Lutheran University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Philosophy and Religion Professors	390	$73,820
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	180	$75,940

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 Joe Mabel under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.