Religious Studies at University of Southern California

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

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and has a total student population of 46,287. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 7 students received a bachelor's degree in religion from USC.

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.

USC Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

USC Religious Studies Rankings

The religion major at USC 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 USC

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

USC Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 7 religion students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from USC, about 29% were men and 71% were women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at USC since its program graduates 38% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 58% 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 Southern California with a bachelor's in religion.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	1
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

USC 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 CA, the home state for University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Philosophy and Religion Professors	2,220	$114,370
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	1,280	$96,200

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 Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.