Gender composition among college graduates by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among college graduates by gender

% of college graduates who are…

Religious denominationMenWomenSample size
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints46%54%207
Episcopal Church38%62%172
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)43%57%186
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)51%49%171
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod47%53%120
Nondenominational evangelical48%52%222
Nothing in particular (religion important)46%54%384
Nothing in particular (religion not important)52%48%781
Presbyterian Church (USA)52%48%129
Southern Baptist Convention52%48%376
United Methodist Church41%59%489
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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