2024 Best Religious/Sacred Music Doctor's Degree Schools
4Colleges in the United States
28Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in religious/sacred music is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #307 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Religious/Sacred Music Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 28 doctor's degrees in religious/sacred music to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Religious/Sacred Music School for Your Doctor's Degree
The religious music doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to religious/sacred music students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other religious/sacred music students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized religious/sacred music related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for religious/sacred music students working on their doctor's degree.
The religious 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 Religious/Sacred Music Doctor's Degree Schools.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Religious/Sacred Music in the United States
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for religious/sacred music students seeking a a doctor's degree.
Liberty University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in religious/sacred music. Located in the small city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in religious/sacred music from Liberty University
One of 2 majors within the Sacred Music area of study, Religious/Sacred Music has other similar majors worth exploring.
Notes and References
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).