2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist is the 134th most popular major in the country with 5,872 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 691 speech-language pathology/pathologist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 speech-language pathology/pathologist graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent speech-language pathology/pathologist programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the speech-language pathology/pathologist program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$56,567 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region list. Northwestern is a private not-for-profit institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 25 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Northwestern, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern are $56,567, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist at Northwestern

#1

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$47,958 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cleveland, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s speech-language pathology degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Case Western also took the #2 spot in our “Best Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Case Western Reserve University are $47,958, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Case Western Reserve University Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist Report

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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