Religious Studies is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #72 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Religious Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 89 bachelor's degrees in religious studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for religious studies students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Religious Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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University of St Thomas Minnesota is a good choice for students interested in a bachelor's degree in religious studies. UST MN is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Paul.
Soon after graduating, religion bachelor's recipients generally make an average of $27,496 in their early careers.
Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in religious studies needs to check out St Olaf College. Located in the distant town of Northfield, St. Olaf is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the religious studies degree program at St Olaf College get $4,417 more than the typical college 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).
