Religious Studies at Touro College

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

Touro is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 11,699. In 2021, 5 religion majors received their bachelor's degree from Touro.

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.

Touro Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion
• Master’s Degree in Religion

Touro Religious Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the religion progam at Touro 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 Touro 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 Master’s Degree Schools	68

In 2021, 8 students received their master’s degree in religion from Touro. This makes it the #34 most popular school for religion master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 0 student who received their doctoral degrees in religion, making the school the #48 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Religion Student Demographics at Touro

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

Touro Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 religion majors earned their bachelor's degree from Touro. Of these graduates, 0% were men and 100% were women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Touro since its program graduates 66% more women than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in religion at Touro are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% 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 Touro College with a bachelor's in religion.

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

Touro Religious Studies Master’s Program

Of the 8 students who earned a master's degree in Religious Studies from Touro in 2020-2021, 75% were men and 25% were women.

Of the students who received a religion master's degree from Touro, 88% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Touro College with a master's in religion.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	7
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Touro 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 NY, the home state for Touro College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Philosophy and Religion Professors	3,530	$80,480
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	1,510	$93,280

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 Matthew G. Bisanz under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.