Religious Studies at Wellesley College

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

Wellesley is located in Wellesley, Massachusetts and approximately 2,280 students attend the school each year. Of the 739 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College in 2021, 3 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.

Wellesley Religious Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Religion

Wellesley Religious Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks religion programs across the country. The following shows how Wellesley 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 Wellesley 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
Most Focused Religious Studies Schools	289
Most Popular Religious Studies Schools	309

Religion Student Demographics at Wellesley

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

Wellesley Religious Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 3 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in religion from Wellesley in 2021, 0% were men and 100% were women. The typical religion bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Wellesley since its program graduates 66% 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 Wellesley College with a bachelor's in religion.

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

Wellesley 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 MA, the home state for Wellesley College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Philosophy and Religion Professors	700	$84,290
Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Professors	470	$98,380

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 Jared and Corin under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.