2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Speech Pathology & Audiology in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Speech Pathology & Audiology is the 103rd most popular major in the country with 7,841 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 481 speech pathology and audiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 speech pathology and audiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in speech pathology and audiology. That schools that top this list have a program in speech pathology and audiology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree audiology students.
Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Speech Pathology & Audiology in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Plains States Region. Washington University in St Louis is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 13 doctorate’s audiology degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Speech Pathology & Audiology at WUSTL
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wichita State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Plains States Region. Wichita State University is located in Wichita, Kansas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 doctorate’s audiology degrees to qualified students.
Full Wichita State University Speech Pathology & Audiology Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Audiology Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Iowa City, Iowa, this large public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified doctorate’s audiology students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Speech Pathology & Audiology at Iowa
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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