2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Music Therapy is the 519th most popular major in the country with 665 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 162 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 70 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music therapy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in music therapy.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree music therapy students.
Top 8 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Immaculata University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Immaculata University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Immaculata, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Music Therapy at Immaculata University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Molloy College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Rockville Centre, New York, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 14 diplomas to qualified masters’s music therapy students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Molloy Music Therapy Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nazareth College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Nazareth College is located in Rochester, New York and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s music therapy degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Music Therapy at Nazareth College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY New Paltz. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. SUNY New Paltz is a medium-sized public school situated in New Paltz, New York. It awarded 12 masters’s music therapy degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.
Full SUNY New Paltz Music Therapy Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Fredonia. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. SUNY Fredonia is located in Fredonia, New York and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s music therapy degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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 full report on Music Therapy at SUNY Fredonia
Drexel University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 10 degrees to qualified masters’s music therapy students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Music Therapy at Drexel University
Temple University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Temple is a large public school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 13 masters’s music therapy degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Music Therapy at Temple
With a ranking of #8, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s music therapy degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full SRU Music Therapy Report
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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
- *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.
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