Music Therapy (MA)

SRH University · Berlin, Germany

Level
Master's
Award
Master of Arts
Language
English
Duration
4 semesters
Study mode
Full-time
Campus
Heidelberg
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This programme has no deadline.
Starts
Winter semester
Tuition
€10,900

Entry requirements and how to apply

Entry requirements
Academic admission requirements include proof of a first academic degree (Bachelor's, Diplom or Magister) in music, social work / special education, psychology, nursing, medicine or a comparable degree. If you have not graduated yet, apply with existing transcripts. Curriculum vitae Proof of English language proficiency Letter of motivation Copy of your identity card or passport
English language requirement
B2 required, please provide an official language certificate, e.g.: TOEFL iBT (before 2026): 79 Reading: 18 Listening: 17 Speaking: 20 Writing: 17
German language requirement
No minimum language level required
Application period
This programme has no deadline listed.
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About this programme

Would you like to use the healing power of music to help people? In our programme, you will develop music therapy skills and learn about the latest therapy concepts. Music Therapy is the specific therapeutic use of music for the promotion of emotional, cognitive, social, and physical integration and recovery on a scientific basis. As an arts therapy approach, it has the potential to contribute to activation, stabilisation, and recovery in the context of prevention, acute intervention, and rehabilitation. In both science and clinical practice, there is an increasing interest in music therapy approaches as an important addition to standard care. The professional context of music therapists is not limited to traditional areas of practice such as psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, or special education. Music therapy is also applied in classical somatic medicine and increasingly used in prevention. In recent decades, music therapy has been established in the following fields: psychiatry psychosomatics and psychotherapy neurology (early and general rehabilitation) geriatrics palliative and hospice care paediatrics intensive medicine centres (for example, neonatology, oncology, pain) and their post-intensive care facilities psychosocial institutions working with children and families with special needs, disabilities, and early support institutions of prevention and education (e.g. music schools, youth centres, kindergartens) The Master's study programme is anchored in the Evidence-

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