Train to become a music therapist

Thanks to Sony Music UK, in 2021 we are offering four bursaries, two in Newcastle and two in Manchester, which will cover the £10,000 cost of tuition fees for our Master of Music Therapy programme.

This bursary aims to remove the barriers to access for anyone who may have previously faced challenges that meant undertaking our MMT was not an option.

For legal reasons, in order for us to accept an application from you, we need you to show us that you satisfy one of the following conditions:

• You are a UK or Irish citizen (you must evidence this at audition by showing us your UK or Irish passport)
• You are an EU citizen who has settled or pre-settled status under the UK Government’s EU Settlement Scheme (you must evidence this at audition by showing us your passport and settlement documentation)
• You have an existing right to remain and study in the UK for the full duration of the programme (you must evidence this at audition by showing us your passport and relevant visa and/or other documentation)

We are required by UK law to retain copies of your documentation for as long as you are a part of the application process. If you are not offered a place, this will be deleted. If you become a student with us, we are required to retain copies of your documentation for as long as you are a student with us.

Please note that you cannot apply for a student visa for the purposes of studying with Nordoff Robbins.

We have for many years trained people from all over the world. In recent years we have trained students from across the EU. This has now changed due to successive actions by UK government, specifically the introduction of Tier 4 visa restrictions and Brexit.

Whilst we are now unable to recruit cohorts which are as geographically and nationally diverse as we would wish, and whilst we are consequently no longer able to support the development of music therapy around the world as we have done previously, we remain actively committed to recruiting UK-focused student cohorts which are as diverse as possible. This includes diversity in all realms of personal and musical experience, including age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and religion, as well as experience of health, illness, disablement, stigmatisation and exclusion. We welcome students from a wide range of musical backgrounds and previous educational experiences. Diversity enriches our work and enables our student cohorts to learn from each other as well as from their tutors. In particular, we recognise that people with lived experience of illness, disablement, stigmatisation and exclusion bring particularly valuable insights and understandings of the human condition to their work with other people.