Anyone weighing marriage and family therapy in Nashville is weighing one accredited program. This page scores it on the outcomes it has published, and puts the local pay for the license beside that.
How are Nashville’s accredited MFT programs ranked?
MFT programs in Nashville are ranked on three things, in descending order of weight: what their graduates achieved, how much of that they published, and where they stand with COAMFTE. None of the three is a local measure, so a program scores identically here and on the Tennessee page. Only its neighbors change.
| # | Program | Level | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lipscomb University (MMFT) 20.7 of 100. The program forfeits the 60 points attached to published results by not publishing any, and keeps what transparency and standing earn it. | Master's | 20.7 | No results published |
What do marriage and family therapists earn around Nashville?
Earnings for marriage and family therapists around Nashville come from the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN figures, which is as local as the federal survey goes for this occupation. Everyone licensed and working in the area is in the count, whatever program they came from.
Between $40,560 and $66,650 sit eight in ten of the therapists counted here. The gap between those two numbers is larger than the gap between most metropolitan medians, which is why setting matters more than location.
Measured per job rather than per head, the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area runs at 1.19 times the national rate for this work. It is a supply figure: how much of this work the local economy contains, not what an hour of it is worth.
Common questions about MFT programs in Nashville
How many accredited MFT programs are there in Nashville?
What do marriage and family therapists earn in Nashville?
Is a degree from Nashville enough to get licensed?
Why do some programs in Nashville score lower than others?
Where do these figures come from?
The figures on this page come from records their subjects publish themselves. What is accredited here is COAMFTE's record; what each program achieved is that program's own disclosure, which accreditation obliges it to publish, Lipscomb University included; what the work pays is the federal survey. None of it is our estimate.