Speech-Language Pathology
Add ComparisonIn 2022, the locations with the highest concentration of Speech-Language Pathology degree recipients are New York, NY, Boston, MA, and San Marcos, CA. In 2022, the locations with a relatively high number of Speech-Language Pathology degree recipients are Clayton, MO, Montevallo, AL, and Doral, FL. The most common degree awarded to students studying Speech-Language Pathology is a masters degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Speech-Language Pathology and the types of students that study this field. Emerson College awards the most degrees in Speech-Language Pathology in the US, but Albizu University-Miami and Emerson College have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Speech-Language Pathology.
Tuition costs for Speech-Language Pathology majors are, on average, $7,716 for in-state public colleges, and $34,716 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Speech-Language Pathology programs are Public, 4-year or above institutions (90 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (3,585 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Speech-Language Pathology, is Public, 4-year or above (3,585 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Speech-Language Pathology programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Emerson College has the most Speech-Language Pathology degree recipients, with 249 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Speech-Language Pathology.
Out of all institutions that offer Speech-Language Pathology programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Albizu University-Miami has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Speech-Language Pathology, with 23.4%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Speech-Language Pathology by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Speech-Language Pathology.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Health in the United States.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Speech-Language Pathology are Masters Degree, Bachelors Degree, and Postbaccalaureate Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Health are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Speech-Language Pathology.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Speech-Language Pathology for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of N/A recipients in Speech-Language Pathology.
N/A students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Philippines that hold Health degrees (5.03 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Philippines (202,070 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Speech-Language Pathology field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Speech-Language Pathology majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Speech-Language Pathology majors need more than the average amount of Operations Analysis, Learning Strategies, and Science.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Speech-Language Pathology majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Operations Analysis is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Writing, and Social Perceptiveness are the three most important skills for people in the field.
