2024 Best Religious/Sacred Music Schools in California
3Colleges in California
26Religious Music Degrees Awarded
When it comes to popularity, religious/sacred music sits in the middle of the road, ranking #603 out of 1506 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Religious/Sacred Music Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 26 degrees in religious/sacred music during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The religious music program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Religious/Sacred Music rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for religious/sacred music schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Religious/Sacred Music Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Religious/Sacred Music in California
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the religious music degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student who is interested in religious/sacred music needs to look into Life Pacific College. Located in the large suburb of San Dimas, LIFE Bible College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population. This college ranks 72nd out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 7 religious/sacred music students who graduated with this degree at LIFE Bible College in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in religious/sacred music needs to look into Biola University. Biola is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of La Mirada. A Best Colleges rank of #358 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Biola is a great university overall.
There were about 9 religious/sacred music students who graduated with this degree at Biola in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Hope International University if you want to pursue a degree in religious/sacred music. Located in the suburb of Fullerton, Hope is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 152nd out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 3 religious/sacred music students who graduated with this degree at Hope in the most recent year we have data available.
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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The religious music program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Religious/Sacred Music rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for religious/sacred music schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
