Educational distribution among adults who attend services weekly or more by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who attend services weekly or more by educational group

% of adults who attend services weekly or more who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA57%28%9%6%202
Assemblies of God53%30%13%5%312
Church of God in Christ52%36%6%6%122
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints23%40%26%12%498
Churches of Christ47%30%13%10%279
Episcopal Church14%24%30%33%167
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)30%32%19%19%265
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)47%30%16%7%437
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)25%40%20%16%123
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod32%33%21%13%221
National Baptist Convention54%25%13%8%294
Nondenominational charismatic33%38%19%10%122
Nondenominational evangelical29%32%26%14%485
Nothing in particular (religion important)54%32%11%3%217
Presbyterian Church (USA)33%18%25%25%211
Seventh-day Adventist36%36%16%12%115
Southern Baptist Convention42%36%15%7%1,101
United Methodist Church32%30%24%15%758
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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