2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy in California

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Music Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in California” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Music Therapy is the 530th most popular major in the country with 686 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 15 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 $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality music therapy programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the music therapy program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Music Therapy Schools

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 “Best Value Music Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in California”.

In addition to College Factual’s rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Music Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Music Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in California.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy in California

#1

University of the Pacific

Stockton, California

#1 in overall quality

$28,929 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Pacific. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Music Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in California list. This medium-sized school is located in Stockton, California, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s music therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

Pacific also took the #1 spot in our “Best Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of the Pacific is $28,929 for California Bachelor’s Degree Music Therapy students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read full report on Music Therapy at University of the Pacific

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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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