Religious Studies at Pomona College

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

Pomona is located in Claremont, California and approximately 1,475 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 4 religion majors received their bachelor's degree from Pomona.

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.

Pomona Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Pomona Religious Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the religion progam at Pomona compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 Pomona 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	115
Most Popular Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	212
Most Popular Religious Studies Schools	274

Religion Student Demographics at Pomona

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

Pomona Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of religion bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Pomona since its program graduates 16% 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 Pomona College with a bachelor's in religion.

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

Pomona 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 CA, the home state for Pomona College.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Philosophy and Religion Professors	2,220	$114,370
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	1,280	$96,200

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 Nostalgicwisdom under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.