Provided is an acoustic wave measuring apparatus including: an acoustic probe； region-of-interest setting unit for setting two or more regions of interest for an object； priority setting unit for setting priorities on the regions of interest； region calculating unit for determining, for each of the set priorities, an inclusion region including the regions of interest set with the priority； scanning method determining unit for assigning a scanning stripe to each of the inclusion regions so as to include all regions of interest included in the inclusion region； scanning path identifying unit for determining a scanning order of a plurality of scanning stripes having a same priority so as to shorten a movement distance of the acoustic probe； and scanning unit for scanning the scanning stripes according to the determined scanning order, based on the priority order, by moving the acoustic probe.
