2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Sacred Music is the 273rd most popular major in the country with 554 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, sacred music graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,993 and had an average of $27,000 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 288 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,060 and $27,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in sacred music. That schools that top this list have a program in sacred music in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree sacred music students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in the Southeast Region

1

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Southeast Region list. This small school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Sacred Music at NOBTS

2

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville, Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Southeast Region list. This small school is located in Louisville, Kentucky, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.

Full The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Sacred Music Report

3

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Southeast Region list. Liberty University is located in Lynchburg, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 20 doctorate’s sacred music degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Sacred Music at Liberty University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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