Students must finish 60 hours of courses to complete their master's degree in speech-language pathology at North Carolina's Appalachian State University. Those who choose to do a thesis need only 57 credits to graduate. Students with an undergraduate degree in the same concentration can finish their master's in five semesters; those with bachelor's degrees in other areas may need an additional two semesters to completed required coursework. Courses included in the master's degree curriculum are those on phonologic disorders, diagnostic process, language disorders in preschool children and disorders of fluency.
Pennsylvania's Bloomsburg University's graduate degree program focuses heavily on clinical experience, both in its on-campus clinic and in a full-semester, off-campus externship. Students must maintain a grade-point average of 3.0 throughout the program and cannot have more than one grade lower than a B-minus. Students need at least 55 semester hours to graduate and may elect to complete a six-hour thesis as part of that requirement. Courses on craniofacial disorders, swallowing, motor-speech disorders and augmentative and alternative communication are included in this master's program.
Plan to spend two years completing your master's degree in speech-language pathology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Add an extra year if your undergraduate degree is in an unrelated field. The school's program includes one or two internships, and you must write a thesis or pass a comprehensive test to graduate. Two summer sessions are included in the program. Students begin clinic work at the on-campus speech center before moving on to experiences in the community. Curriculum highlights include stuttering treatment and research, communication neuroscience and learning disabilities.
Students here receive a master's of education degree with a concentration in speech-language pathology. Interactions with children, adolescents, adults and groups comprise the clinical experiences in the San Jose State University program. This California university requires students to complete a research project or pass a comprehensive test to graduate. Courses of study include motor-speech disorders, oral and written connections, statistics and voice resonance disorders.