Religious Studies at Smith College

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

Smith is located in Northampton, Massachusetts and approximately 2,504 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students received a bachelor's degree in religion from Smith.

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.

Smith Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Smith Religious Studies Rankings

The religion major at Smith 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.

Religion Student Demographics at Smith

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

Smith Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of religion bachelor's degrees went to men and 100% went to women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Smith since its program graduates 66% more women than average.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in religion at Smith are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Smith 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	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Smith 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 MA, the home state for Smith College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Philosophy and Religion Professors	700	$84,290
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	470	$98,380

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 Redjar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.