Music Therapy

The Master of Music Therapy (MMT) program is flexible to enable you to continue your education on your terms while still maintaining your employment. During your second year, you will be required to participate in two in-person intensives for you to develop additional clinical skills and interact face-to-face with your peers and instructors. Scholarships are available.

  • Online graduate offerings allow you to continue practicing while pursuing your degree, providing greater financial flexibility and increased opportunities to convert learned knowledge to clinical skills.
  • You will learn how to provide specialized intensive psychological, emotional, and psychospiritual support to patients in various medical settings such as cancer centers, neonatal intensive care units, and hospices.
  • Explore how to provide ethical, culturally responsive healthcare services that engage patients as active collaborators and stakeholders in their health journeys.
  • Through your graduate music therapy studies, you will become an adaptive and resilient healthcare professional in a rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem.
  • You will 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.