Religious Studies at Salem College

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

Salem is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and approximately 636 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 3 students received a bachelor's degree in religion from Salem.

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.

Salem Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Salem Religious Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the religion progam at Salem 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 Salem 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	249
Most Popular Religious Studies Schools	309

Religion Student Demographics at Salem

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

Salem Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 3 students earned a bachelor's degree in religion from Salem. About 100% of these graduates were women and the other 0% were men. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Salem since its program graduates 66% more women than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Salem 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 NC, the home state for Salem College.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Philosophy and Religion Professors	740	$81,680
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	260	$82,580

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 Bjoertvedt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.