2024 Best Religious/Sacred Music Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
53Master's Degrees
When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in religious/sacred music sits in the middle of the road, ranking #501 out of 1172 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for religious/sacred music students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 53 master's degrees in religious/sacred music during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Religious/Sacred Music School for Your Master's Degree
The religious music master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality religious music program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on religious/sacred music students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of religious/sacred music students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized religious/sacred music related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for religious/sacred music students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Religious/Sacred Music Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Religious/Sacred Music in the Southeast Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in religious/sacred music.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Master's in Religious Music
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).