Music therapist courses

Music therapist pre-registration master’s courses

8 pre-registration master’s courses for music therapists, at 8 UK universities, running from 2 years to 3 years across England, Scotland and Wales.

MSc pre-reg

8 MSc pre-reg courses 8 across all routes

8 Universities

2–3 years Typical length

0 of 8 Applied for through UCAS The rest take direct applications

What the pre-registration master’s route means here

A pre-registration master’s is a career-changer route. It assumes you already hold a degree — sometimes in any subject, more often in a related science or social science — and it covers the same regulatory standards in a compressed, year-round timetable. Applications usually go direct to the university rather than through UCAS, and competition tends to be sharper because the cohorts are small.

Every approved music therapist course in the dataset follows this route, so this page and the full music therapist listing show the same 8 courses. That in itself is worth knowing: there is no alternative kind of programme to weigh up in this profession at the moment, so your decision is about university and location rather than about route.

None of these courses carries a UCAS code in the dataset, which normally means applying direct to the university or, for apprenticeships, to the employer advertising the vacancy. 6 publish a typical offer in a citable form, shown in the table below. Whatever the route, a substantial part of the programme is assessed practice placement rather than campus teaching, and that is where most of the travel goes.

Compare these courses

Music therapist pre-registration master’s courses
University	Course	Award	Length	UCAS	Typical offer	Location
Anglia Ruskin University	MA Music Therapy	MA	2 years	Direct	Not published	Cambridge, England
Guildhall School of Music and Drama	MA in Music Therapy	MA	2 years	Direct	Not published	London, England
Nordoff Robbins	Master of Music Therapy (Nordoff Robbins): Music, Health, Society	MMT	2 years	Direct	Not published	London, England
Queen Margaret University	Music Therapy MSc	MSc	2 years	Direct	Not published	Edinburgh, Scotland
University of Derby	MA Music Therapy	MA	2 years	Direct	Not published	Derby, England
University of Roehampton	MA Music Therapy (part-time)	MA	2 years	Direct	Not published	London, England
University of South Wales	MA Music Therapy	MA	Not published	Direct	Not published	Newport, Wales
University of the West of England, Bristol	MA Music Therapy	MA	3 years	Direct	Not published	Bristol, England