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This comment is prejudiced and incorrect in every possible way.

The next highest majors are Agriculture and then Architecture. How does that fit into your just-so-story?

Philosophy/ReligiousStudies is the 8th most extreme outlier, right after Liberal Arts.

Further, the article isn't about majors of students getting married, it's about majors of graduates getting married.

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I wonder if there is a degree of separation from other students influencing the homogamy here: theology is often taught in a separate school of Divinity (eg Harvard), and at least some large universities have separate schools of Agriculture and Architecture ( eg Cornell).

I did my undergrad in the Cornell ag school. In practice it just meant having one class a semester in a different building. There wasn't any meaningful impact on my social life, other than becoming unusually proficient at identifying mushrooms. If you go through a super intensive program like architecture or medical school then that's going to have a huge impact on your life, but whether or not that program is in its own school probably doesn't matter.

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