Applied & Professional Ethics
Add ComparisonIn 2022, the locations with the highest concentration of Applied & Professional Ethics degree recipients are College Park, MD, Baltimore, MD, and Pittsburgh, PA. In 2022, the locations with a relatively high number of Applied & Professional Ethics degree recipients are Miami Gardens, FL, Stevens Point, WI, and College Park, MD. The most common degree awarded to students studying Applied & Professional Ethics is a bachelors degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Applied & Professional Ethics and the types of students that study this field. Johnson University (220473) awards the most degrees in Applied & Professional Ethics in the US, having also the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Applied & Professional Ethics, followed by University of Baltimore.
Tuition costs for Applied & Professional Ethics majors are, on average, $8,196 for in-state public colleges, and $44,394 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Applied & Professional Ethics programs are Public, 4-year or above institutions (21 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (86 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Applied & Professional Ethics, is Public, 4-year or above (86 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Applied & Professional Ethics programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Johnson University (220473) has the most Applied & Professional Ethics degree recipients, with 36 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Applied & Professional Ethics.
Out of all institutions that offer Applied & Professional Ethics programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Johnson University (220473) has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Applied & Professional Ethics, with 7.83%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Applied & Professional Ethics by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Applied & Professional Ethics.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Philosophy and Religious Studies graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Philosophy and Religious Studies majors is $99,563 and the most common occupations are Clergy, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Postsecondary teachers.
The industry that employs the most Philosophy and Religious Studies majors is Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Offices of physicians.
The average salary for Philosophy and Religious Studies majors is $99,563 and the most common occupations are Clergy, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Postsecondary teachers.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Philosophy and Religious Studies majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Philosophy and Religious Studies majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Philosophy and Religious Studies majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Philosophy and Religious Studies majors, by number of employees, are Clergy, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Postsecondary teachers.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Philosophy and Religious Studies majors working as Clergy, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Directors, religious activities & education.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Philosophy and Religious Studies majors are Cardiovascular technologists and technicians, Surgeons, and Securities, commodities, & financial services sales agents.
The number of Philosophy and Religious Studies graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 2.18%, from 352,113 in 2021 to 359,792 in 2022.
The largest single share of Philosophy and Religious Studies graduates go on to work as Clergy (9.56%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Philosophy and Religious Studies by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Philosophy and Religious Studies majors, by number of employees, are Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges, Religious organizations, and Elementary & secondary schools.
The highest paying industries of Philosophy and Religious Studies majors, by average wage, are Offices of physicians, Computer & peripheral equipment manufacturing, and Internet publishing, broadcasting & web search portals.
The number of Philosophy and Religious Studies graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 2.18%, from 352,113 in 2021 to 359,792 in 2022.
The industry which employs the most Philosophy and Religious Studies graduates by share is Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges, followed by Religious organizations. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Philosophy and Religious Studies.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Philosophy and Religious Studies majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Philosophy and Religious Studies majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies in the United States.
The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies is 44.9.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Bachelors Degree. Female employees are more likely to hold Philosophy and Religious Studies degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Philosophy and Religious Studies (68 students).
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies. The most common ages of employees with this major are 36 and 37 years old, which represent 3.13% and 3.13% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Applied & Professional Ethics are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Postbaccalaureate Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Philosophy and Religious Studies are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Applied & Professional Ethics.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Applied & Professional Ethics for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Bachelors Degree recipients in Applied & Professional Ethics.
White Male students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Norway that hold Philosophy and Religious Studies degrees (6.26 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Korea (3,696 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Applied & Professional Ethics field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Applied & Professional Ethics majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Applied & Professional Ethics majors need more than the average amount of Learning Strategies, Writing, and Instructing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Applied & Professional Ethics majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Learning Strategies is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Writing, and Speaking are the three most important skills for people in the field.
