2024 Best Religion/Religious Studies Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
170Religion Degrees Awarded
A degree in religion/religious studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #189 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of religion/religious studies. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 170 degrees in religion/religious studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Religion/Religious Studies School
Your choice of religion/religious studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Religion/Religious Studies School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Religion/Religious Studies in New York
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the religion degree levels they offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in religion/religious studies has to check out Columbia University in the City of New York. Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York. A Best Colleges rank of #14 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Columbia is a great university overall.
There were about 24 religion/religious studies students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent year we have data available.
New York University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in religion/religious studies. NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York. This university ranks 4th out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 11 religion/religious studies students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent year we have data available.
Fordham University is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in religion/religious studies. Fordham U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Bronx. This university ranks 10th out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 21 religion/religious studies students who graduated with this degree at Fordham U in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of religion/religious studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Religion/Religious Studies School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
