Find their voice find your future
An undergrad degree with clear career pathways
By combining the sciences with hands-on labs and clinic experiences, this degree is the first step on your journey to a flexible, rewarding career helping patients of all ages, and their families, improve communication skills.
While gaining a deep understanding of the anatomy and mechanisms behind speaking and hearing, this program prepares students to enter either the Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology or Doctor of Audiology programs:
- M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology: communication and hearing experts who are trained to diagnose and treat the full range of communicative disorders and hearing disorders in all age groups.
- Doctor of Audiology: communication and hearing experts who are trained to diagnose and treat the full range of hearing and vestibular disorders in all age groups.
Your future
Communication and hearing experts can be flexible with their futures.
Practice in settings that match your career goals and how they fit your vision of work-life balance:
- Hospitals
- Clinics
- Special-treatment centers
- Private practice
- Schools
Those that hold advanced degrees can expect to make a salary in the $75,000 range and the career growth rate is higher than the national average due to an aging Baby Boomer generation.
With career flexibility, you can work and live almost anywhere.
In the next ten years, jobs in the field are expected to grow by 25%.
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