When it comes to popularity, massage therapy/therapeutic massage sits in the middle of the road, ranking #626 out of 1506 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 1,404 degrees in massage therapy/therapeutic massage to qualified students.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage in the Great Lakes Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the massage therapy/therapeutic massage degree levels they offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage
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).