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Religious Studies at Virginia Tech

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Religious Studies at Virginia Tech

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

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and approximately 37,024 students attend the school each year. Of the 7,699 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech in 2021, 17 of them were religious studies majors.

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.

Virginia Tech Religious Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Virginia Tech Religious Studies Rankings

The religion major at Virginia Tech 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 Virginia Tech

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

Virginia Tech Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

71% Women
41% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The religion program at Virginia Tech awarded 17 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 29% of these degrees went to men with the other 71% going to women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Virginia Tech since its program graduates 37% more women than average.

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About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in religion at Virginia Tech are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 28% 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 Virginia Tech with a bachelor's in religion.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 9
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

Virginia Tech also has a doctoral program available in religion. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation Jobs in VA Average Salary in VA
Philosophy and Religion Professors 830 $72,280
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors 260 $76,950

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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