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Most Popular Schools for Music Therapy/Therapist Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals, in association with a rehabilitation team or in private practice, to use music in therapeutic relationships to address patients' physical, psychological, cognitive, emotional, and social needs. Includes instruction in music theory and performance, human growth and development, biomedical sciences, abnormal psychology, disabling conditions, patient assessment and diagnosis, treatment plan development and implementation, clinical evaluation, record-keeping, and professional standards and ethics.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Berklee College of Music 52 4% $65,144
2 Maryville University of Saint Louis 25 1% $46,076
3 Western Michigan University 24 0% $26,009
4 Molloy College 22 2% $51,856
5 Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College 21 9% $45,514
6 University of Kansas 21 0% $26,566
7 Shenandoah University 21 2% $47,000
8 Georgia College & State University 19 1% $28,536
9 Florida State University 18 0% $22,168
10 Immaculata University 17 3% $46,000
11 Appalachian State University 16 0% $19,194
12 University of Evansville 15 3% $52,190
13 Arizona State University-Tempe 14 0% $28,048
14 State University of New York at New Paltz 13 1% $25,641
15 Eastern Michigan University 13 0% $26,196
16 Temple University 13 0% $33,004
17 Cleveland State University 13 0% $29,045
18 Sam Houston State University 12 0% $22,478
19 Drexel University 12 0% $70,223
20 Utah State University 11 0% $20,504
21 Loyola University New Orleans 10 1% $56,564
22 Baldwin Wallace University 10 1% $47,528
23 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania 10 0% $25,147
24 SUNY at Fredonia 10 1% $23,902
25 Nazareth College 10 1% $50,235
26 University of the Incarnate Word 9 0% $48,628
27 Texas Woman's University 9 0% $20,272
28 Purdue University Fort Wayne 9 0% $22,200
29 Drury University 9 3% $40,951
30 Queens University of Charlotte 8 1% $48,968
31 University of Miami 8 0% $68,460
32 Augsburg University 8 1% $52,780
33 Southern Methodist University 8 0% $74,737
34 Belmont University 8 0% $52,760
35 Marywood University 8 1% $51,960
36 University of Louisville 8 0% $27,980
37 Elizabethtown College 7 2% $60,460
38 Seattle Pacific University 7 1% $58,794
39 Charleston Southern University 7 1% $40,940
40 University of North Dakota 7 0% $22,091
41 Wartburg College 7 2% $53,675
42 University of Georgia 7 0% $26,688
43 University of the Pacific 6 0% $66,971
44 Montclair State University 6 0% $31,704
45 University of Dayton 5 0% $59,230
46 William Carey University 5 0% $22,694
47 Mercyhurst University 5 1% $53,311
48 The College of Wooster 4 1% $64,000
49 Alverno College 4 1% $40,693
50 Anna Maria College 4 1% $54,090
51 Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion 3 0% $38,578
52 Converse College 3 1% $34,230
53 Pacific University 2 0% $59,490
54 Ohio University-Main Campus 2 0% $28,986
55 Concordia University-Wisconsin 2 0% $44,850
56 Seton Hill University 2 0% $51,432
57 University of Kentucky 2 0% $30,101
58 East Carolina University 1 0% $21,672
59 Duquesne University 1 0% $54,364
60 Edgewood College 1 0% $44,216
61 Michigan State University 1 0% $28,862

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Music Therapy/Therapist program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.