2022 Best Value Music Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Music Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 686 people earned their degree in music therapy, making the major the 530th most popular in the United States.

Across Virginia, there were 23 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great music therapy programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the music therapy program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Music Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia bachelor’s degree music therapy students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy (Income $0-$30k) in Virginia

#1

Shenandoah University

Winchester, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$25,591 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Music Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Virginia For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Shenandoah University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Winchester, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s music therapy students in 2019-2020.

Shenandoah also took the #1 spot in our “Best Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” ranking. It costs about $25,591 for Virginia Bachelor’s Degree Music Therapy students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Shenandoah.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Music Therapy at Shenandoah University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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

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