Music Therapy at Eastern Michigan University

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

Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and approximately 16,294 students attend the school each year. Of the 710 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University in 2021, 5 of them were music therapy majors.

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.

Eastern Michigan Music Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music Therapy

Eastern Michigan Music Therapy Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the music therapy progam at Eastern Michigan compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The music therapy major at Eastern Michigan 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
Best Music Therapy Graduate Certificate Schools	3
Best Value Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
Most Focused Music Therapy Graduate Certificate Schools	4
Best Value Music Therapy Graduate Certificate Schools	4
	23
Best Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	37
Most Popular Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	43

Music Therapy Student Demographics at Eastern Michigan

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

Eastern Michigan Music Therapy Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Music Therapy from Eastern Michigan in 2020-2021, 0% were men and 100% were women.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in music therapy at Eastern Michigan are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor's in music therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	4
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy
• Orthotist/Prosthetist
• 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 MI, the home state for Eastern Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Health Specialties Professors	5,440	$131,020
Therapists	130	$54,360

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 Dwight Burdette under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.