2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 84 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in music therapy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in music therapy.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree music therapy students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Therapy in the Southwest Region

1

Texas Woman's University
Denton, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Woman’s University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas Woman’s University is a fairly large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 11 masters’s music therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Music Therapy at Texas Woman’s University

2

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region list. Arizona State University - Tempe is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s music therapy degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, 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 86%.

Full ASU - Tempe Music Therapy Report

3

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the Southwest Region list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s music therapy degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, 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 90%.

Full SMU Music Therapy Report

• Most Focused Master’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.