2022 Best Value Audiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Audiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 7,883 people earned their degree in speech pathology and audiology, making the major the 98th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 312 speech pathology and audiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 speech pathology and audiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Audiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in speech pathology and audiology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great speech pathology and audiology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the speech pathology and audiology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Audiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Audiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Speech Pathology & Audiology (Income $30-$48k) in the Far Western US Region

#1

Washington State University

Pullman, Washington

#2 in overall quality

$11,337 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Audiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. This large school is located in Pullman, Washington, and it awarded 24 bachelors’s audiology degrees in 2019-2020.

Wazzu did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Speech Pathology & Audiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. It costs about $11,337 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Audiology students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Wazzu.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Speech Pathology & Audiology at Wazzu

#2

University of Redlands

Redlands, California

#1 in overall quality

$22,240 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Redlands. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Audiology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Redlands, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s audiology degrees to 54 students in 2019-2020.

University of Redlands also made our “Best Speech Pathology & Audiology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $22,240 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Audiology students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend University of Redlands.

The low student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Speech Pathology & Audiology at University of Redlands

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Speech Pathology & Audiology (Income $30-$48k)

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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