Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education
The Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University offers a clinical Doctorate of Audiology (AuD). The program provides students with a broad, yet in-depth, academic, and practicum-based curriculum to prepare them to become certified audiologists in a variety of settings. Graduates have the skills to function at a high level of expertise in such environments as hearing and balance clinics, hospitals, private practice, research laboratories, hearing conservation programs, elementary schools, the military,and so on.
The program is a four-year post-baccalaureate residency program, with a long history, as it was the first of its kind in the Intermountain and Pacific West states. In addition, USU is in the forefront of research in counseling, hearing aids, speech perception, hidden hearing loss, person-centered care, and telehealth applications in audiology. The AuD enables graduates to enter the field at a professional level and begin a rewarding career in hearing healthcare.
Graduate School Requirements
Degree Verification
A bachelor’s degree from an accredited U. S. college or university or a similarly recognized international university is required for admission to and completion of a graduate program.
Overall Graduate GPA at least 3.0 and no grades of C- or lower;
Graduate students are required to maintain at least a 3.0 GPA for degree-program courses. Grades of C- or lower will not be accepted for a graduate degree.
Course Number Acceptability
The Program of Study for a master’s degree or a doctoral degree, if the student has a master’s degree, must include at least 15 semester credits at the level of 6000 or above.
Credits in the following areas are not acceptable in a degree program: foreign languages (unless included in an approved Program of Study), continuing graduate advisement, individual home study, military science, and courses numbered below 3000.
Matriculation Start Semester
A doctoral degree must be completed within eight years of entering the degree program. Additional time may be requested by the student’s committee and submitted to the Vice Provost of Graduate Studies for review.
