What Profession Can I take up with Religious Studies Major?

Question

I am currenly working toward my degree in Religious Studies and am almost finished. It is now time to figure out how I can make a living. Does anyone know what i can do with this degree, or have i wasted 4 years and 44 grand in OSAP?

Answer 1

Here is what some of my students (religious studies majors) over the last decade or so have done.

- attorneys
- high school teachers
- journalists
- clergy
- business, particularly international corporations, often in human resources or diversity offices
- non-profit/ non-governmental organizations, often in some type of social service or humanitarian/environmental work
- government, also often in human resources or diversity offices, sometimes political lobbying or politician's staff
- museum work
- publishing
- counseling
- medicine
- marketing and advertising (management)
- doctoral studies leading to university professorship

I hope this helps! The bottom line is that you can use your intercultural skills and knowledge as well as your specific disciplinary focus to build a career in almost any field. I assure you, your education was certainly not a waste of time. (If it was, I'd have quit my job a long time ago.)

Best wishes to you, and I wish you every success.

Answer 2

Well, most people I know that have majored in Religious Studes, or similar progams, have gone on to careers in clergy positions.

Other than that you may be able to get a job doing research on world religions.

It really depens on the variety of courses you took in college. You could, theoretically, still even apply for Med School with your major...as long as you finished the required Med School coursework.

You may, however, need to go back and get a second bachelor's degree in order to make yourself marketable in a profession not related to your major.

Answer 3

You can do something Pastoral related, Religious Counseling, and thats pretty much it. You will need a PhD to be a Professor of Religious Studies, or any other sort of teaching, etc.

Answer 4

Hmm i imagine you ought to flow with psychology by using the indisputable fact that is a desirable subject and that i imagine it better exciting than non secular study because you may practice psychology to anybody yet with non secular study you're in hardship-free words restricted to the non secular.

Answer 5

pretty much any government position in a church... talk to your pastor/priest/rabbi... holy guy... and see what he has heard of... I'm sure there is job placement assitance stuff available in or around your advisor's office

Answer 6

you can be a professor of religious studies

Answer 7

President of the United States, apparently.

Answer 8

you could be a pastor, or a couselor, or maybe even a teacher.

Answer 9

a pedophile priest or an somone who sodomizes kids for non-religous reasons.