a bachelor's degree in religious studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #72 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Religious Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 2,047 bachelor's degrees in religious studies to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on religious studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other religious studies students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt religious studies students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized religious studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for religious studies students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Religious Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision.
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It is hard to beat Jewish Theological Seminary of America if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in religious studies. Located in the large city of New York, Jewish Theological Seminary of America is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the religious studies major at Jewish Theological Seminary of America make $35,088 more than the typical graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
Fordham University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in religious studies. Fordham U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Bronx.
Bachelor's recipients from the religious studies program at Fordham University make $9,837 more than the average graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
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).
