Music Therapy at Florida Gulf Coast University

If you plan to study music therapy, take a look at what Florida Gulf Coast University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

FGCU is located in Fort Myers, Florida and approximately 15,358 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 8 music therapy majors received their bachelor's degree from FGCU.

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.

FGCU Music Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music Therapy

FGCU Music Therapy Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The music therapy major at FGCU 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 Value Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	19
Most Popular Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	23
	34
	36
Most Focused Music Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	38
Most Focused Music Therapy Schools	42

Music Therapy Student Demographics at FGCU

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

FGCU Music Therapy Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 13% of music therapy bachelor's degrees went to men and 88% went to women.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in music therapy at FGCU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's in music therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

FGCU 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 FL, the home state for Florida Gulf Coast University.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Health Specialties Professors	9,250	$80,990
Therapists	890	$48,610

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 Brett Levin under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.