Religious Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

What traits are you looking for in a religion school? To help you decide if University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's religion program.

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and approximately 52,679 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 5 religion majors received their bachelor's degree from UIUC.

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.

UIUC Religious Studies Degrees Available

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

UIUC Religious Studies Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The religion major at UIUC 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
Best Value Religious Studies Schools	42
	60
Most Popular Religious Studies Schools	154

In 2021, 3 students received their master’s degree in religion from UIUC. This makes it the #73 most popular school for religion master’s degree candidates in the country.

Religion Student Demographics at UIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the religion majors at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

UIUC Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from UIUC in 2020-2021, 60% were men and 40% were women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at UIUC since its program graduates 6% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 27% 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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's in religion.

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

UIUC Religious Studies Master’s Program

The religion program at UIUC awarded 3 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 33% of these degrees went to men with the other 67% going to women.

Of the students who received a religion master's degree from UIUC, 100% 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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master'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

UIUC 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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Philosophy and Religion Professors	960	$81,200
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	450	$74,010

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 Beyond My ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.