2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy in the New England Region

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Music Therapy is the 519th most popular major in the country with 665 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 38 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree music therapy students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy in the New England Region

1

Berklee College of Music
Boston, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Berklee College of Music. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the New England Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s music therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Berklee College of Music Music Therapy Report

2

Anna Maria College
Paxton, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Anna Maria College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the New England Region. Anna Maria College is a small school located in Paxton, Massachusetts that handed out 7 bachelors’s music therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Music Therapy at Anna Maria College

• 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.