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CSD Education Survey Data At-A-Glance for Speech-Language Pathology Master’s Programs (Academic Year 2023-2024)
Institution Summary
• 319 institutions offer a master’s degree in speech-language pathology
• 38.0 is the mean student capacity for new admissions
• 32 is the median student capacity for new admissions
• 113.0 average number of graduate practicum hours obtained at on-campus sites
• 337.0 average number of graduate practicum hours obtained at off-campus sites
Applications and Admissions (number of applications across institutions; not number of individual applicants)
• 52,179 applications received
• 23,655 offered admission
• 45.3% offered admission
• 3.08-3.98 GPA mean range of students offered admission
• 18.6% offers of admission with funding
• Assistantships and scholarships are the majority of the funding offered
Enrollment
• 9,899 first-year students enrolled
• 3.6% of first-year students were male
• 1.6% of first-year students were international students
• 21,675 total enrollment
• 34.4% of programs reported insufficient clinical placements as having a moderate or major impact on enrollment (16.7% and 17.7% respectively)
• 39.1% of programs reported insufficient student funding as having a moderate or major impact on enrollment (25.0% and 14.1% respectively)
Degrees Granted
• 9,844 master’s degrees in speech-language pathology were granted
Data was based on an overall response rate of 92% (293 of 319) of the institutions completing the CSD Education Survey. No extrapolation was conducted.
Source: Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders & American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2024). Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) Education Survey National Aggregate Data Report: 2023–2024 academic year. Retrieved from www.capcsd.org and www.asha.org.