If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in sacred music, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #225 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Sacred Music Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 145 bachelor's degrees in sacred music during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 - How many other sacred music students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
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 bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.
The sacred music school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Sacred Music Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Sacred Music in the Southeast Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in sacred music.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Sacred Music
It's difficult to beat Liberty University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in sacred music. Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Lynchburg.
Soon after graduation, sacred music bachelor's recipients usually make an average of $33,284 in their early careers.
It's difficult to beat Southeastern University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in sacred music. Located in the midsize city of Lakeland, SEU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the sacred music program state that they receive average early career wages of $29,713.
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).