2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in Virginia

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In 2020-2021, 473 people earned their degree in religious/sacred music, making the major the 603rd most popular in the United States.

Across Virginia, there were 134 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 35 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,799 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in Virginia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in religious/sacred music. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their religious/sacred music program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in Virginia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious/Sacred Music in Virginia

1

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

#13 overall quality in Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, and it awarded 35 masters’s religious music degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Religious/Sacred Music at Liberty University

2

Shenandoah University
Winchester, Virginia

#9 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Shenandoah University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in Virginia. Located in Winchester, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s religious music students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Religious/Sacred Music at Shenandoah University

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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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