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56 Religiously Affiliated Colleges in California

In California, there are 56 religiously affiliated colleges which are mostly private, not for profit, and four-year schools. Of them, 46 schools have undergraduate programs and 51 schools have graduate programs. The 2025 average undergraduate tuition & fees is $30,856 and the average graduate tuition is $19,134.
Roman Catholic has the most affiliated college of 13 schools. Undenominational and Assemblies of God Church also have many affiliated college of 5 and 4 schools respectively.
The following table lists the number of California colleges by religious affiliation. You can see the list of colleges for each affiliation by following the link on the number in the column. Furthermore, you can sort the table by a column by clicking/touching the column that you desire.
California Colleges with Religious Affiliation
Religious AffiliationNumber of SchoolsUndergraduate Tuition & FeesGraduate Tuition & FeesPopulationStudents to Faculty
American Baptist1 $2,856 $19,640 108 13 to 1
Assemblies of God Church4 $19,424 $13,567 2,775 12 to 1
Baptist2 $16,808 $13,833 186 6 to 1
Christ and Missionary Alliance Church1 $39,708 $20,090 992 17 to 1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)1 $64,984 $39,868 9,760 12 to 1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ1 $38,125 $18,504 1,025 13 to 1
Church of the Nazarene1 $46,250 $11,880 4,757 13 to 1
Churches of Christ1 $69,918 $44,056 8,976 12 to 1
Evangelical Lutheran Church1 $52,560 $22,046 3,351 13 to 1
Interdenominational1 $39,020 $10,410 2,860 13 to 1
Jewish3 $19,682 $30,802 1,626 7 to 1
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod1 $43,480 $8,895 3,658 13 to 1
Mennonite Brethren Church1 $36,660 $13,780 2,879 10 to 1
Multiple Protestant Denomination2 $21,900 $22,535 2,014 -
Muslim1----
Non-Denominational3 $25,571 $7,314 1,508 13 to 1
Other (none of the above)2 $7,070 $6,090 773 25 to 1
Other Protestant3 $29,634 $13,206 2,759 11 to 1
Presbyterian Church (USA)2 $6,270 $5,739 524 12 to 1
Protestant Episcopal1 - $17,660 40 -
Roman Catholic11 $42,222 $24,872 44,882 11 to 1
Seventh Day Adventist3 $34,948 $30,028 6,758 9 to 1
Southern Baptist1 $41,228 $15,562 11,902 21 to 1
Undenominational5 $34,155 $12,666 13,851 15 to 1
Unitarian Universalist1 $20,813 $20,853 77 -
United Methodist1 $26,520 $26,520 213 -
Wesleyan1 $6,200 $6,200 307 15 to 1
African Methodist EpiscopalNo affiliated Schools.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
American Evangelical Lutheran ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
Brethren ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
Christian Methodist EpiscopalNo affiliated Schools.
Christian Reformed ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
Church of BrethrenNo affiliated Schools.
Church of GodNo affiliated Schools.
Cumberland PresbyterianNo affiliated Schools.
Episcopal Church, ReformedNo affiliated Schools.
Evangelical ChristianNo affiliated Schools.
Evangelical Congregational ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
Evangelical Covenant Church of AmericaNo affiliated Schools.
Evangelical Free Church of AmericaNo affiliated Schools.
Free MethodistNo affiliated Schools.
Free Will Baptist ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
FriendsNo affiliated Schools.
General BaptistNo affiliated Schools.
Greek OrthodoxNo affiliated Schools.
Lutheran Church in AmericaNo affiliated Schools.
Mennonite ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
Missionary Church IncNo affiliated Schools.
Moravian ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
North American BaptistNo affiliated Schools.
Original Free Will BaptistNo affiliated Schools.
Pentecostal Holiness ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
Plymouth BrethrenNo affiliated Schools.
PresbyterianNo affiliated Schools.
Reformed Church in AmericaNo affiliated Schools.
Reformed Presbyterian ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
Russian OrthodoxNo affiliated Schools.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsNo affiliated Schools.
The Presbyterian Church in AmericaNo affiliated Schools.
United Brethren ChurchNo affiliated Schools.
United Church of ChristNo affiliated Schools.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran SynodNo affiliated Schools.