All doctoral applicants must hold professional certification in music therapy.

All applicants must have five years of full-time clinical experience as a professional music therapist.

Applicants should submit a paper on Music Therapy. This paper should be written in English, and demonstrate the applicant's scholarship and writing ability (published or unpublished).

Approximately three weeks after all application materials have been received, an interview is scheduled with the music therapy faculty. The interview may occur at the time of the in-person audition or may be scheduled after the applicant submits a recorded audition.

Graduate applicants who have not completed the following courses before entering the program must complete them as part of their curriculum.

• Music in Medicine
• Music Therapy Education and Training
• Music Therapy Ethics
• Qualitative Research in Music Therapy
• Quantitative Research in Music Therapy
• Theories of Music Psychotherapy

Applicants are encouraged, but not required, to submit any additional information that will help the faculty in the admission decision. Items may include, but are not limited to

• curriculum development material,
• digital recordings of compositions or arrangements,
• lesson or rehearsal plans,
• recital performance recordings, and
• recordings of performance groups.