Educational distribution among republicans and Republican leaners by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among republicans and Republican leaners by educational group

% of republicans and Republican leaners who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA57%30%9%4%205
Assemblies of God45%35%15%5%288
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints23%41%25%11%467
Churches of Christ39%40%11%10%249
Episcopal Church23%29%26%22%191
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)32%35%21%12%279
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)42%36%16%6%516
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod30%36%22%12%289
Nondenominational charismatic35%37%14%13%110
Nondenominational evangelical30%35%24%12%485
Nothing in particular (religion important)55%29%12%4%560
Nothing in particular (religion not important)41%35%15%9%720
Presbyterian Church (USA)25%29%31%15%194
Southern Baptist Convention41%37%16%6%1,201
United Methodist Church30%33%24%12%886
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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