Educational distribution among conservatives by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among conservatives by educational group

% of conservatives who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
American Baptist Churches USA64%25%9%2%213
Assemblies of God47%34%14%5%287
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints20%43%27%10%407
Churches of Christ45%34%11%10%264
Episcopal Church24%33%25%18%147
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)41%35%17%8%214
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)46%32%15%6%494
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod35%33%21%12%261
National Baptist Convention61%22%11%6%159
Nondenominational charismatic38%39%13%10%109
Nondenominational evangelical30%34%25%11%441
Nothing in particular (religion important)62%25%10%2%528
Nothing in particular (religion not important)50%32%12%5%493
Presbyterian Church (USA)36%29%26%9%153
Southern Baptist Convention43%36%15%6%1,206
United Methodist Church40%31%20%9%721
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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