Educational distribution among non-parents by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among non-parents by educational group

% of non-parents who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA64%25%8%3%358
Assemblies of God58%26%11%4%334
Church of God in Christ60%25%10%5%113
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints33%44%16%7%400
Churches of Christ52%31%11%6%375
Episcopal Church18%29%28%25%409
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)35%32%19%14%523
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)54%32%10%4%608
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)29%42%16%12%138
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.)15%42%28%15%104
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod39%34%17%10%376
National Baptist Convention59%25%11%6%355
Nondenominational charismatic42%34%16%8%134
Nondenominational evangelical34%38%18%11%443
Nothing in particular (religion important)56%28%11%5%1,431
Nothing in particular (religion not important)38%34%17%11%2,292
Presbyterian Church (USA)31%27%22%21%351
Presbyterian Church in America28%39%22%11%133
Seventh-day Adventist32%43%16%9%121
Southern Baptist Convention49%34%12%5%1,454
Spiritual but not religious40%33%17%10%104
Unitarian13%30%28%29%129
United Church of Christ35%22%21%21%191
United Methodist Church35%31%21%14%1,319
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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