Educational distribution among whites by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among whites by educational group

% of whites who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Buddhist19%30%24%27%140
Catholic36%30%20%14%4,805
Evangelical Protestant43%35%15%7%6,603
Jewish17%19%31%33%778
Mainline Protestant36%30%20%14%5,300
Mormon25%39%25%11%574
Orthodox Christian27%34%19%20%152
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")35%33%20%13%5,479
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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