Master's in Speech-Language Pathology

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To be eligible for admission to the Graduate School at Marquette University, applicants must meet the following requirements:

• A bachelor's degree with a major in communicative disorders, or its equivalent, from a regionally accredited institution or international equivalent must be completed prior to starting graduate school.
• Students seeking the master of science degree in speech-language pathology must have completed the following undergraduate prerequisite courses, or their equivalents, per approval from the director of graduate studies prior to full admission into the graduate program: anatomy and physiology of the speech mechanism, phonetics and phonology, child language development, child language disorders, speech science, introduction to audiology, and intervention methods in speech-language pathology.
• Prerequisite Course Content Areas Related to SLP Certification Standards are required to obtain licensure. All courses must be completed and passed at the undergraduate or graduate level at an accredited institution and must appear on official transcripts. Classes taken at the high school level are not eligible to meet this requirement, with the exception of advanced placement (AP) courses that appear for credit on your college/university transcript. If students need to take any of these courses during the graduate program, they will not count toward the minimum number of graduation credits. 
  •  Coursework in the areas of biological sciences, physical sciences (either physics or chemistry), social/behavioral sciences, and statistics cannot be related to speech-language pathology, audiology, communication sciences, hearing sciences, or logopedia unless they fulfill a university general education requirement and are available to students who are not majoring in communication sciences and disorders (CSD). 
• A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.00 on a 4.00 scale.
• Demonstrated English proficiency for non-U.S. citizens.

Students who do not meet these standard requirements must be prepared to complete undergraduate background courses as advised by the program director.

Application Requirements

Applicants must submit, directly to CSDCAS:

• A completed online application form. (instructions/FAQ found here).
• Transcripts:
  • If coursework was completed within the United States, submit copies of all current and previous college/universities except Marquette¹
  • If coursework was completed outside of the United States, a transcript evaluation is required. A copy of a course-by-course evaluation is approved for the application process.²
• Three letters of recommendation from individuals familiar with the applicant’s academic and clinical work.

• A 1-2 page personal statement of career interests and goals (BIES applicants should reference their interest in the program).

• CV/Resume.
• For international applicants only: a TOEFL score or other acceptable proof of English proficiency.
• (For BIES applicants only) it is recommended applicants provide proof of Spanish proficiency directly to department, instructions found online.
• GRE not required.

^{1Upon admission, final official transcripts from all previously attended colleges/universities, with certified English translations if original language is not English, must be submitted to the Graduate School within the first five weeks of the term of admission or a hold preventing registration for future terms will be placed on the student’s record.} 

^{2Upon admission, an official course-by-course transcript/academic record evaluation must be submitted to the Graduate School within the first five weeks of the term of admission or a hold preventing registration for future terms will be placed on the student’s record.} 

January 15: Application and application materials should be received by the Communication Sciences Disorder Centralized Application Service (CSDCAS) to be considered for the fall term.

Students admitted to the speech-language pathology program are not permitted to defer their admission.

Tuition scholarships and graduate assistantships are merit based. Since we have virtually no way of assessing clinical merit, it means that we look almost exclusively at academic merit.

If there is evidence of research experience or aptitude in your application (for example, you worked in a research lab as an undergraduate, you wrote an undergraduate research thesis, you took research design or statistics classes as an undergraduate), this would be looked upon favorably.

Private scholarships may also be available. U.S. citizens and permanent residents may be eligible to apply for need-based federal aid (loans) to help fund their educational expenses as well.