2026 Best Sacred Music Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Sacred Music programs are offered at a focused set of schools across the country. The schools below stand out for the quality of their sacred music programs.
For its 2026 ranking, College Factual looked at 28 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for sacred music students pursuing a degree.
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Best Schools for Sacred Music in the Great Lakes Region
If you are not interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the sacred music degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Schools in Sacred Music
Cedarville University tops our 2026 ranking of the best sacred music schools. Cedarville University is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the rural area of Cedarville. Cedarville University graduates 72% of students within six years. Cedarville University awarded about 18 sacred music degrees in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, sacred music degree recipients from Cedarville University generally make around $57,104. Students borrow a median of $22,110 to complete this degree.
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Notes and References
This list is compiled by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. The methodology weighs graduation rate, post-graduation earnings, cost, and program quality, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Top Ranked · 28 schools evaluated.
- 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.
