Music Therapy

The online Master of Music Therapy (MMT) provides advanced training for board-certified music therapists looking to develop a reflexive, compassionate, and whole person practice. Come be a part of a dynamic community of learners committed to advancing music therapy as primary and core service.

  • Continue practicing while pursuing your degree when you enroll in asynchronous online graduate courses.
  • ​Learn how to provide specialized support to patients in treatment contexts such as cancer centers, neonatal intensive care units, and hospices.
  • Explore how to provide ethical, culturally responsive healthcare services that engage individuals as active collaborators and stakeholders in their health journey.
  • ​Become an adaptive​ and resilient healthcare professional in a rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem.
  • Experience a curriculum focused on community-engaged practice and medical music psychotherapy.

View 2024–2025 Master of Music Therapy Curriculum

Audition Overview

Admission to the Mary Pappert School of Music also includes a formal audition. Learn more about the audition process & guidelines.

Program Information

Optional Licensed Professional Counselor Track Available

Degree

Master's

School

Mary Pappert School of Music

Academic Department

Music Education and Music Therapy

Duration

2-year

Required Credit Hours

32

The Student Experience

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I really enjoy the opportunity to interact with other music therapists in an academic setting. I find that between the readings, work, and peer engagement I am more excited about my work in the field of music therapy.

Morgan Maxwell Current MMT Student

MMT Program Director

Noah Potvin

BSMT and MMT Program Director; Associate Professor of Music Therapy; Chair of Music Therapy and Music Education

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Learning Outcomes

  1. Students and graduates will apply philosophical tenets and clinical techniques of humanistic, psychodynamic, and community-engaged practice in diverse healthcare settings.
  2. Students and graduates will develop the capacity for cultural reflexivity - including but not limited to effectively assessing the ecological systems that comprise their culture and their patients' cultures - that enables ethical and effective partnering with patients in community-based healthcare settings.
  3. Students and graduates will demonstrate expertise in the provision of psychotherapy to diverse patient typologies in community-based and medical healthcare treatment settings.
  4. Graduates will develop the capacity for critical analysis of their practice and the healthcare systems they work within. Students will:
    • Identify knowledge deficits in both their clinical practice and the broader literature base
    • Formulate research questions and/or clinical inquiries that can be used to collect and analyze data
    • Systematically evaluate collected data to construct conclusions directly responsive to the formulated research questions
    • Utilize these conclusions to directly inform and shape their practice
    • Share and disseminate conclusions to colleagues in music therapy and closely related fields through scholarly presentations and writings
  5. Graduates will be positioned to become leaders in the field and in their respective communities and healthcare systems by assuming one or more of the following roles: clinical supervisors, patient advocates, clinician-researchers, and clinician-educators.