Careers and Outcomes

A degree in religion studies from Elmhurst leads to a cornucopia of opportunities.

Graduates who have chosen a life of ministry have thrived as pastors, professors, counselors, youth ministers, chaplains and ministers of music. Other religion studies majors have succeeded in:

Our alumni include:

• Reinhold Niebuhr, 1910, one of the 20th century’s foremost theologians
• H. Richard Niebuhr, 1912, president of Elmhurst University from 1924 to 1927 and a prominent theological ethicist
• Walter Brueggemann ’55, Old Testament scholar and professor
• Susan Schreiner ’74, professor at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School
• LaShawn Jakes ’97, Elmhurst University Trustee and Baptist pastor in Chicago
• Marsha Sumner ’05, Manager, Spiritual Care at University of Chicago Hospitals
• Emily Odean ’09, minister
• Kyle Tade ’10, minister
• Sarah Frische-Mouri ’10, minister
• Arik Borstad ’11, minister
• Emily Labrecque ’11, pastor
• Maureen Elliot ’12, pastor
• Brian Kendrik ’14, graduate student at North Park Seminary
• Ryan Walsh ’14, graduate student at Fuller Theological Seminary
• Benjamin Williams ’16, graduate student at Luther Seminary