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The Association of Theological Schools<\/a>, accreditor of\u00a0graduate theological schools in the U.S. and Canada, publishes stats on its member schools annually. The 2010 report<\/a> allows us to track trends in the last four years.<\/p>\n

Since 2006:<\/p>\n

* The head count of graduate students in Catholic grad schools in the U.S. has\u00a0sunk 8.25%, and the full-time equivalent (FTE) has\u00a0declined 6%.<\/p>\n

*The decline for Catholic grad schools in Canada is 34% (headcount) and 23% (FTE). Anyone know what’s going on in Canada??<\/p>\n

* The decline for Protestant grad schools in the U.S. is 5% (headcount) and 6.2% (FTE).<\/p>\n

The charts for Catholics<\/a> and Protestants<\/a>\u00a0give the raw numbers.<\/p>\n

Why do you suppose the number of theology grad students in the U.S. and Canada is declining, for Protestants and Catholics alike?<\/p>\n

I noticed that the Protestant and non-denominational schools have total student numbers markedly higher than Catholic schools’ totals, so I did a bit of calculating. If about 51% of the U.S. population is Protestant and about 22% is Catholic, this means that:<\/p>\n

* there are about 4 millions Protestants in the U.S. for each student in a Protestant graduate theology school; but<\/p>\n

*there are almost 15 million Catholics in the U.S. for each student in a Catholic graduate theology school.<\/p>\n

Why do you suppose that is?<\/p>\n

Now of course some of the students in Protestant grad schools are Catholic, and vice versa. But that probably doesn’t account for all the gap. How much of it is explained by lower clergy\/member ratios in Protestantism compared to Catholicism?<\/p>\n

awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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