2025 Best Music Therapy Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
62Music Therapy Degrees Awarded
A degree in music therapy is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #519 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Music Therapy Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 62 degrees in music therapy annually.
Your choice of music therapy school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Music Therapy School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Schools in the Plains States Region.
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Best Schools for Music Therapy in the Plains States Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the music therapy degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is hard to beat University of Kansas if you wish to pursue a degree in music therapy. KU is a very large public university located in the city of Lawrence. A Best Colleges rank of #192 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means KU is a great university overall.
There were about 16 music therapy students who graduated with this degree at KU in the most recent data year.
Maryville University of Saint Louis is a great option for students interested in a degree in music therapy. Located in the suburb of Saint Louis, Maryville U is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 7th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 8 music therapy students who graduated with this degree at Maryville U in the most recent year we have data available.
Augsburg University is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in music therapy. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, Augsburg is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 39th out of 52 schools for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were about 16 music therapy students who graduated with this degree at Augsburg 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).
Your choice of music therapy school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Music Therapy School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
