SUMMARY
Studying Music Therapy is not only a valuable choice, but generally a needed first step for scholars wanting to enter a career as a music therapist, a rehab specialist, or a music curriculum designer. In fact, nationally, music therapy is a very rare major coming in at the 287th most popular degree. Last academic year alone, there were 471 music therapy degrees conferred. In-state tuition for music therapy at private colleges is, on average, 3.5 times more expensive than their public peers.
With just 62 colleges having programs for music therapy there could be a more finite list of the institutions that will have an option for you. If you are hoping to surround yourself with other music therapy undergraduates, consider looking at institutions in Pennsylvania which have the most undergrads admitted to music therapy annually. less precisely, the top region to major in music therapy is in the Mid East region with Montclair State University, Marywood University, and Temple University best representing the region. Interestingly, our pick of the best conference to study music therapy is the Atlantic Coast Conference with Florida State University, University of Miami, and University of Louisville representing the conference. Based on our comprehensive list of the best colleges, our choice for the best college for music therapy is University of Miami.
The objectively best school does not mean it is the 'best' school for you. There might be many more facets to weigh when deciding on school. Things such as campus amenities, transportation services, and food could definitely alter one's inclinations on where to go to school. At authority.org, we've evaluated the pros and cons for you. If, for example, you want to know which music therapy university has the best college campus, the winner is Arizona State University-Tempe. If, for example, you are mostly interested in which college has the top campus, we have a whole page dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through student reviews, professor reviews, government databases, and more so we can compare every major in an unbiased and informative way. You can explore our well researched list for the schools with the best student life here and from that list, our pick for the college with the best student life for music therapy is University of Georgia. Are you curious why? Keep scrolling to learn more about our top selections. Many of our decisions will probably shock you.
If expense is a significant deciding factor in your choice of where you attend school, you might consider avoiding University of Miami. University of Miami is our most expensive school for music therapy, at least for out of state students. We do have a page for the most expensive universities that could put the price tag at University of Miami into perspective. For more context, you may want to know that music therapy is the 223rd most expensive program in America, with an average expense of $29,000. On a broader scale, the most costly state for music therapy on our list is California demonstrated with a cost of $48,904 at the main college in the state University of the Pacific. To zoom out even further, the most costly region of the U.S. for music therapy is the Far West region which is best demonstrated with University of the Pacific with a cost of $48,904, Pacific University with a cost of $45,344, and Seattle Pacific University with a cost of $44,604.
Our cheapest region for music therapy is the Rocky Mountains region which is represented by Utah State University with a cost of $21,087. More optimistically, the most affordable school for music therapy is Florida State University. Authority's full list of the most affordable universities can be found here.
In-state learners can anticipate paying in the neighborhood of $10,600 for a degree in music therapy. The price increases dramatically to an average of $22,100 for an out-of-state public-school student. Our choice for the school representing the best value for music therapy: University of Miami. On this page you can find our comprehensive list about the universities we believe to be the best value in general. Bear in mind, this idea is based on being an out-of-state student. The value proposition changes when it comes to in-state tuition, but we do not know where you live (and are not trying to collect that kind of data).
Earnings for music therapy majors differ a lot, but within two-years of finishing the degree graduates will often make in the neighborhood of $53,100. There can be a lot of variation in pay; highest paid earners can make up to $104,700. Straight out of university, the minimum earning jobs within the music therapy field earn $27,100, which could be worse. The top earning grads for music therapy attended University of the Pacific and if you are looking for schools with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.
The overall diversity of music therapy lies in the bottom, being in only the 8th percentile of majors nationally. The college with the highest composite diversity for music therapy is University of Miami and here you can find our comprehensive list of the schools which have the most diversity. The financial diversity of the Music Therapy major only stands in the 87th percentile compared to all other majors. Racial diversity is even less in the 11th percentile. White undergraduates compose the largest share at 79% of those studying music therapy. Additionally, 84% of scholars seeking a music therapy degree are women.
We have insufficient professors data for music therapy to make the conclusions we normally would have made in this sentence. If we including data other than just rankings it becomes clear that the college with the overall best professors for music therapy is University of Miami. One can find more detail on our evolving ranking methodology for the best overall professors here, along with some of the finest professors in the country.
Finally, the most difficult college to get into for music therapy is University of Miami. While we do not necessarily see the value in it, we have a general list for the hardest colleges to get into. Although, we hope you believe that looking at college with a lens mainly shaped by superlatives might cause problems. We at Authority hope you read our other pages on individual schools and read a couple of our helpful background pages on beneficial details to consider as your school search develops.