2025 Best Music Therapy Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
54Music Therapy Degrees Awarded
Music Therapy is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #519 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for music therapy students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 54 degrees in music therapy to qualified students.
The music therapy program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Music Therapy rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music therapy schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Music Therapy Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Music Therapy in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of music therapy degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in music therapy has to take a look at Texas Woman's University. TWU is a large public university located in the city of Denton. This university ranks 24th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 14 music therapy students who graduated with this degree at TWU in the most recent data year.
University of the Incarnate Word is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in music therapy. UIW is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of San Antonio. This university ranks 38th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were approximately 4 music therapy students who graduated with this degree at UIW in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in music therapy has to check out Sam Houston State University. SHSU is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Huntsville. A Best Colleges rank of #480 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means SHSU is a great university overall.
There were about 12 music therapy students who graduated with this degree at SHSU in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The music therapy program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Music Therapy rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music therapy schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
