You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in sacred music. It is ranked #273 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Sacred Music Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 34 degrees in sacred music during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The sacred music school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Sacred Music Schools in Illinois.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
The schools below may not offer all types of sacred music degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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