Religious Studies at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

If you plan to study religious studies, take a look at what University of New Mexico - Main Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has a total student population of 22,311. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in religion from UNM.

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.

UNM Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

UNM Religious Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks religion programs across the country. The following shows how UNM performed in these rankings.

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 UNM 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
	64
Most Popular Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	167

Religion Student Demographics at UNM

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the religion majors at University of New Mexico - Main Campus.

UNM Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students earned a bachelor's degree in religion from UNM. About 60% of these graduates were women and the other 40% were men. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at UNM since its program graduates 26% more women than average.

About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in religion at UNM are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. 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 New Mexico - Main Campus with a bachelor's in religion.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UNM 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 NM, the home state for University of New Mexico - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in NM	Average Salary in NM

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 PerryPlanet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.