A degree in religious studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #90 out of 395 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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Religious Studies Schools in Virginia ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 901 degrees in religious studies to qualified students.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Religious Studies Schools in Virginia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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.
University of Virginia - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in religious studies. University of Virginia is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Charlottesville.
Students who receive their degree from the religion program earn about $25,260 for their early career.
Liberty University is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in religious studies. Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Lynchburg.
Religious Studies degree recipients from Liberty University receive an earnings boost of approximately $6,982 over the typical earnings of religious studies majors.
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).