A new study by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan suggests that individuals who studied social sciences in college were the least religious compared to their classmates six years after graduation. This conclusion is not surprising. Social scientists study the development of man made institutions and organizations. This probably makes religious organizations appear less mystical and more the result of common patterns of human behavior.
One would have expected that there would be a correlation between the change in importance and the change in attendance, so it seems pretty odd that while the attendance increase for Bio/Eng/Math grads, there’s a decrease in the importance.