The Graduate Program in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia offers a comprehensive curriculum spanning traditions, geographies, and methodologies geared toward the MA and PhD degrees. Rooted in the humanities and liberal arts, our faculty train graduate students in historical, philological, philosophical, theological, ethnographic, and literary approaches to the study of religion. Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia as a non-sectarian institution dedicated to the “illimitable freedom of the human mind,” a vision he also promoted through his Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. The Graduate Program in Religious Studies draws on these legacies of intellectual rigor and freedom.