Best Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Far Western US Region that made our Best Sacred Music Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Sacred Music School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The sacred music bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality sacred 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

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on sacred music students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of sacred music students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt sacred music students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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 schools for sacred music students working on their bachelor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Far Western US Region

Unfortunately , we don't have adequate data to create a ranking of the quality schools for sacred music in the Far Western US Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Far Western US Region that both offer sacred music and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other Sacred Music rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Sacred Music ranking.

Best Sacred Music Colleges by State

Explore the best sacred music colleges for a specific state in the Far Western US Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	262	29
Washington	226	3
Oregon	185	1

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Sacred Music Related Rankings by Major

One of 7 majors within the Theology & Religious Vocations area of study, Sacred Music has other similar majors worth exploring.

Sacred Music Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Religious/Sacred Music	37
Worship Ministry	3

Majors Similar to Sacred Music

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Theological & Ministerial Studies	277
Biblical Studies	165
Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries	89
Missionary Studies	13
Religious Education	11
Theology & Religious Vocations (Other)	11

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jackerhack. More about our data sources and methodologies.