Educational distribution among third generation immigrants or higher by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among third generation immigrants or higher by educational group

% of third generation immigrants or higher who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
African Methodist Episcopal Church36%45%11%8%109
American Baptist Churches USA60%28%8%4%405
Assemblies of God51%32%12%4%352
Church of God in Christ47%40%8%5%134
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints25%41%23%11%555
Churches of Christ44%37%11%7%436
Episcopal Church16%29%28%27%421
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)30%33%22%15%573
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)49%34%12%5%732
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)25%47%15%12%179
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.)16%41%24%18%116
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod35%34%19%12%408
National Baptist Convention54%26%12%7%430
Nondenominational charismatic36%38%16%10%161
Nondenominational evangelical27%38%22%13%562
Nothing in particular (religion important)54%30%11%4%1,522
Nothing in particular (religion not important)38%34%17%11%2,260
Presbyterian Church (USA)27%24%26%23%375
Presbyterian Church in America31%36%20%12%136
Southern Baptist Convention46%35%13%5%1,745
Spiritual but not religious35%38%19%8%105
Unitarian7%23%33%37%134
United Church of Christ34%18%23%25%195
United Methodist Church32%31%22%15%1,499
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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