2024 Best Speech Pathology & Audiology Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
3Colleges in the Far Western US Region
69Master's Degrees
Speech Pathology & Audiology is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #70 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Speech Pathology & Audiology Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 69 master's degrees in speech pathology & audiology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Speech Pathology & Audiology School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of speech pathology & audiology for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to speech pathology & audiology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other speech pathology & audiology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized speech pathology & audiology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for speech pathology & audiology students working on their master's degree.
The audiology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Speech Pathology & Audiology Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Speech Pathology & Audiology in the Far Western US Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in speech pathology & audiology.
Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Master's in Audiology
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).