2024 Best General Communication Sciences & Disorders Schools
115Colleges in the United States
7,269Communication Science Degrees Awarded
General Communication Sciences & Disorders is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #110 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 115 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Communication Sciences & Disorders Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 7,269 degrees in general communication sciences & disorders during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Communication Sciences & Disorders School
The communication science program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Communication Sciences & Disorders rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general communication sciences & disorders schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your General Communication Sciences & Disorders Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Communication Sciences & Disorders Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Communication Sciences & Disorders in the United States
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the communication science degrees they offer, see the list below. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
Any student who is interested in general communication sciences & disorders has to take a look at Northwestern University. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Evanston. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were about 20 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center if you want to pursue a degree in general communication sciences & disorders. TTUHSC is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Lubbock.
There were approximately 114 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at TTUHSC in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in general communication sciences & disorders has to check out University of Washington - Seattle Campus. Located in the city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #37 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UW Seattle is a great university overall.
There were about 62 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at UW Seattle in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat The University of Texas at Austin if you want to pursue a degree in general communication sciences & disorders. Located in the large city of Austin, UT Austin is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #36 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UT Austin is a great university overall.
There were approximately 129 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at UT Austin in the most recent data year.
UMCP is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of College Park. A Best Colleges rank of #42 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UMCP is a great university overall.
There were roughly 53 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at UMCP in the most recent data year.
USF Tampa is a very large public university located in the city of Tampa. This university ranks 8th out of 77 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were approximately 47 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at USF Tampa in the most recent data year.
Pacific is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Stockton. This university ranks 40th out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 51 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at Pacific in the most recent data year.
Case Western is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Cleveland. A Best Colleges rank of #63 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Case Western is a great university overall.
There were about 19 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at Case Western in the most recent year we have data available.
ASU - Tempe is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Tempe. A Best Colleges rank of #119 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means ASU - Tempe is a great university overall.
There were about 86 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Tempe in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #51 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were about 35 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent data year.
KU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Lawrence. This university ranks 1st out of 47 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kansas.
There were roughly 53 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at KU in the most recent data year.
Baylor is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Waco. A Best Colleges rank of #123 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Baylor is a great university overall.
There were roughly 201 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at Baylor in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large suburb of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #81 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UMass Amherst is a great university overall.
There were roughly 69 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst in the most recent data year.
Located in the medium-sized city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #72 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UGA is a great university overall.
There were about 102 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at UGA in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the suburb of Fullerton, Cal State Fullerton is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 41st out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 186 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at Cal State Fullerton in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #133 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means University of Arizona is a great university overall.
There were approximately 87 general communication sciences & disorders students who graduated with this degree at University of Arizona in the most recent year we have data available.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best General Communication Sciences & Disorders Schools award.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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The communication science program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Communication Sciences & Disorders rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general communication sciences & disorders schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
