2023 Most Focused Colleges for Music Therapy in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the New England 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 New England region, there were 38 music therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Music Therapy in the New England Region

1

Berklee College of Music
Boston, Massachusetts

$21,941 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,362 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Berklee College of Music. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the New England Region. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s music therapy degrees to 31 students in 2020-2021.

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. 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%.

Full Berklee College of Music Music Therapy Report

2

Anna Maria College
Paxton, Massachusetts

$60,713 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,178 Average Student Debt

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 Highly Focused on Music Therapy Major in the New England Region. Paxton, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s music therapy degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Music Therapy at Anna Maria College

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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

• *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.