2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 665 people earned their degree in music therapy, making the major the 519th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 36 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in music therapy. That schools that top this list have a program in music therapy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree music therapy students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy in the Far Western US Region

1

Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, Washington

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Seattle Pacific University landed the #1 spot on the list. SPU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Seattle, Washington. It awarded 10 bachelors’s music therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Music Therapy at Seattle Pacific University

2

Pacific University
Forest Grove, Oregon

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pacific University landed the #2 spot on the list. Pacific University is a small school located in Forest Grove, Oregon that handed out 9 bachelors’s music therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Pacific University Music Therapy Report

3

University of the Pacific
Stockton, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Pacific. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of the Pacific is a medium-sized school located in Stockton, California that handed out 12 bachelors’s music therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Full University of the Pacific Music Therapy Report

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Mount Saint Mary's University
Los Angeles, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mount Saint Mary’s University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Far Western US Region. MSMU is located in Los Angeles, California and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s music therapy degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Music Therapy at MSMU

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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