Hindus are the most educated religious group in the US. According to a study, the members of the community has the highest number of college degrees. They are followed by Unitarians Universalists, Jews, Anglicans and congregants of the Episcopal Church respectively.

The study has found out that these groups are ahead of atheists and agnostics.

The study is done by Pew and it used the four-year college degree as the marker of the study since it’s generally regarded as the key asset for economic success.

The largest share of those of college degree goes to Hindus, where the Unitarians were second with 67 percent and Jews and Anglican Church adherent finished third with a 59 percent of them with college degrees. Episcopal church followers are fifth with 56 percent of them with college degrees.

Atheist and agnostics accounted for 43 percent and 42 percent respectively whereas Muslims and Catholics had 39 percent and 26 percent of their population with degrees respectively.

The US doesn’t keep the count of the population on a religious basis, but the estimated population of Hindus in the US is 0.7 percent, according to a 2014 study by Pew. Some other estimates say Hindus are between 2 million and 3 million.

“Given the strong correlation between educational attainment and economic success, it is not surprising that Jews and Hindus, on average, have high household incomes, with four-in-ten Jews (44%) and roughly a third of Hindus (36%) living in households with annual incomes of at least $100,000,” Pew study citing its 2014 study was mentioned in HT.