Music Therapy at Belmont University

If you are interested in studying music therapy, you may want to check out the program at Belmont University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Belmont is located in Nashville, Tennessee and has a total student population of 8,204. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 22 students received a bachelor's degree in music therapy from Belmont.

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.

Belmont Music Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music Therapy

Belmont Music Therapy Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks music therapy programs across the country. The following shows how Belmont performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The music therapy major at Belmont 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Best Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
Best Music Therapy Schools	4
	8
Most Popular Music Therapy Schools	8
Most Focused Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	10
	11
Most Focused Music Therapy Schools	14
Best Value Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	18
Best Value Music Therapy Schools	28

Music Therapy Student Demographics at Belmont

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the music therapy majors at Belmont University.

Belmont Music Therapy Bachelor’s Program

Of the 22 music therapy students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Belmont, about 5% were men and 95% were women.

About 77% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in music therapy at Belmont are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 1% 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 Belmont University with a bachelor's in music therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	17
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Belmont also has a doctoral program available in music therapy. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Physical Therapy/Therapist
• Occupational Therapy

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 TN, the home state for Belmont University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Health Specialties Professors	5,690	$102,310

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 EVula under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.