2025 Best Music Therapy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
95Bachelor's Degrees
a bachelor's degree in music therapy is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #360 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Music Therapy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 95 bachelor's degrees in music therapy during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Music Therapy School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of music therapy for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to music therapy students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of music therapy students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized music therapy related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for music therapy students working on their bachelor's degree.
The music therapy school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Music Therapy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Music Therapy in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in music therapy.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Music Therapy
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).