Religious Studies at University of North Texas

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

UNT is located in Denton, Texas and approximately 40,953 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 6 religion majors received their bachelor's degree from UNT.

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.

UNT Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

UNT Religious Studies Rankings

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

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 UNT 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 Religious Studies Schools	62
Most Focused Religious Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	440

Religion Student Demographics at UNT

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the religion majors at University of North Texas.

UNT Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students earned a bachelor's degree in religion from UNT. About 50% of these graduates were women and the other 50% were men. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at UNT since its program graduates 16% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% 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 North Texas 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	1

UNT 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 TX, the home state for University of North Texas.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Philosophy and Religion Professors	1,520	$87,240
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	510	$65,060

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 Michael Barera under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.