You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in sacred music. It is ranked #227 out of 343 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Sacred Music Master's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 134 master's degrees in sacred music to qualified students.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to sacred music students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of 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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for sacred music to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized sacred music related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for sacred music students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Sacred Music Master's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in sacred music needs to look into Liberty University. Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Lynchburg.
Master's students who receive their degree from the sacred music program earn an average of $43,737 in the first couple years of working.
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).
