2025 Best Religion/Religious Studies Schools in California
3Colleges in California
252Religion Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in religion/religious studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #189 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Religion/Religious Studies Schools in California ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 252 degrees in religion/religious studies to qualified students.
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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for religion/religious studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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.
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 Religion/Religious Studies Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Religion/Religious Studies in California
The schools below may not offer all types of religion degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of California - Santa Barbara is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in religion/religious studies. UCSB is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Santa Barbara. A Best Colleges rank of #47 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UCSB is a great university overall.
There were about 41 religion/religious studies students who graduated with this degree at UCSB in the most recent data year.
California State University - Long Beach is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in religion/religious studies. Located in the city of Long Beach, CSULB is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 36th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 11 religion/religious studies students who graduated with this degree at CSULB in the most recent year we have data available.
University of California - Davis is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in religion/religious studies. UC Davis is a very large public university located in the small suburb of Davis. This university ranks 10th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 11 religion/religious studies students who graduated with this degree at UC Davis in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of religion/religious studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for religion/religious studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
