Music Therapy at Berklee College of Music

If you plan to study music therapy, take a look at what Berklee College of Music has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Berklee College of Music is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 6,631 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Music Therapy section at the bottom of this page.

Berklee College of Music Music Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music Therapy

Berklee College of Music Music Therapy Rankings

The music therapy major at Berklee College of Music is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Music Therapy. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Music Therapy Student Demographics at Berklee College of Music

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the music therapy majors at Berklee College of Music.

Berklee College of Music Music Therapy Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 24% of music therapy bachelor's degrees went to men and 76% went to women. The typical music therapy bachelor's degree program is made up of only 11% men. So male students are more repesented at Berklee College of Music since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% more racial-ethnic minorities in its music therapy bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Berklee College of Music with a bachelor's in music therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	22
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Related Majors

Careers That Music Therapy Grads May Go Into

A degree in music therapy can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Berklee College of Music.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Health Specialties Professors	3,460	$111,230
Therapists	480	$76,860

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Walters-Storyk Design Group under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.