Liberty ranked No. 1 for Christian music education

Christian Universities Online ranked Liberty University’s School of Music No. 1 among the Top 10 Christian College Music Programs 2017.

Liberty’s School of Music is the nation’s seventh largest school of music and is comprised of two centers — the Center for Music & the Performing Arts and the Center for Music & Worship — as well as the newly established Department of Commercial Music.

A number of degree programs are offered in the School of Music from Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Science degrees to Master of Arts degrees in ethnomusicology, music and worship, music education, and worship studies, as well as a Doctor of Worship Studies program. Undergraduate programs are offered in a wide range of areas, including choral music, guitar performance, music and worship, music in world cultures, vocal performance, and commercial music degrees in artist development, film scoring, jazz studies, recording engineering and producing, and songwriting.

The School of Music is housed in the new Center for Music and the Worship Arts, a two-building, 141,000-square-foot facility outfitted with two recital halls, 50 practice rooms, 42 teaching studios, as well as piano, songwriting, and music computer labs. Construction is wrapping up on a 1,600-seat fine arts concert hall and a recording studio is in the design stage.

All programs within Liberty’s School of Music are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), which is the national accrediting agency for music and music-related disciplines.