2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 688 people earned their degree in music therapy, making the major the 519th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 54 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in music therapy. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their music therapy program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy in the Southwest Region

1

Texas Woman's University
Denton, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the #1 spot on the list. TWU is a fairly large public school situated in Denton, Texas. It awarded 14 masters’s music therapy degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Music Therapy at TWU

2

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 5 masters’s music therapy degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full Arizona State University - Tempe Music Therapy Report

3

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region. This fairly large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 1 masters’s music therapy degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Music Therapy at SMU

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.