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

% of liberals who have completed…

Religious denominationHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Episcopal Church11%22%22%44%140
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)26%29%22%23%149
National Baptist Convention51%30%13%5%109
Nothing in particular (religion important)51%30%12%7%539
Nothing in particular (religion not important)28%34%22%16%1,193
Presbyterian Church (USA)21%22%17%40%102
Southern Baptist Convention57%31%7%5%148
Unitarian13%20%27%40%120
United Methodist Church25%32%22%21%242
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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