<p>What are some Christian colleges that are strong in music? Midwest or eastern area.</p>
<p>Olivet nazarene university located in bourbonnais illinois has an excellent music program, & department, that is the only one i know of off-hand.</p>
<p>Belmont (Nashville,TN) usually gets mentioned. I’m only mentioning it from hearsay as I’ve never personally checked out the college, but it’s what comes to mind with Christian College and great music program.</p>
<p>Concur w/ Creekland. Music is huge there (Belmont U.). And very diverse, not solely secular. Many big-time music folks, as you’d guess many in the country genre, from there. Brad Paisley, Lee . Just building brand new law school. HCA has partnered in tAnn Womack, etc. Mike Curb, who is a major producer in Nashville, has bought in there BIG TIME. They have a performance venue 2nd to none. A spectacular campus in nice area near music row in Nashvilleheir health care programs …pharm, PT, nursing, OT. Lest you could not tell, I’m a fan. Friend’s daughter went there, they all loved it. One other “twist” on this … they have a music business major, unique and very strong we hear. Has grown rapidly. About 6k students, including 4,800 undergrads.</p>
<p>Belmont! My son is going there this fall. He will major in commercial music composition and arranging. Belmont has a School of Music and a separate College of Music Business. Both are very competitive. The SOM programs require an instrumental (or voice) audition, the CMB doesn’t. There are songwriting programs in each.</p>
<p>From the research I did, Belmont has a strong music program. The musical theatre program is very competitive for sure. I was disappointed, however, this past fall when we took a road trip to Belmont for audition; there was not mention about the schools Christian vision, mission or faith. My D will attend Belhaven University for musical theatre in the fall. BU’s motto is “Our standard is Christ” and from the feed back I have received, the staff actively live out their faith. Hope you find the right Christian college for you.</p>
<p>Belmont doesn’t hit the Christian aspects too hard during the music audition days, because they are really focused on the music. But when we went there for a regular campus visit and tour, we were pleased with the discussion about the university’s Christian mission. Our son just came back from orientation and was very excited to meet so many other committed Christian students!</p>
<p>Wheaton College in IL.</p>
<p>Houghton in New York</p>