About the Department

Today, we have about 175 undergraduate majors, 80 graduate students, and a faculty and staff of 30.

Students in the Department hail from all over the nation. Upon leaving the University, our graduates enter the clinical, teaching, and research fields throughout the United States. While in school, Communication Sciences and Disorders graduate students conduct original research, participate in symposia, and may serve as research assistants, teaching assistants or assistant instructors. Many of our students publish scholarly articles or deliver papers at professional meetings. We are proud of the high level of professional involvement of our students. All of those who have earned a Ph.D. in our Department have obtained faculty or other professional positions.

Our graduate program is tailored to individual students. Students develop a plan of study in consultation with their faculty advisory committees. Ordinarily, an M.A. program is completed in two years and a Ph.D. in three or four years after completion of the M.A. We encourage most students in the doctoral program to create a four year full-time Ph.D. work plan since it is quite difficult to produce a high quality dissertation if the student is not in residence.