Amy
Do most people that become audiologists go to school full-time or part-time after graduating from college?
I am planning to get a master's degree in speech pathology and am then considering continuing on to become an audiologist. I was wondering if most people continue to work as a speech pathologist while attending additional classes to become an audiologist or if they go to school full-time immediately after receiving their master's degree.a #speech-pathology #audiologist
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Julie Norin
Julie’s Answer
Most audiology programs are full time graduate programs. There is no longer a Master's degree for Audiology, so the majority of AuD students start grad school to pursue the doctorate in audiology (AuD) directly following undergrad. If you are considering pursuing a Master's degree in Speech first, and then returning to grad school to pursue the AuD, I would advise that most AuD programs are full time, and require you to be available to complete clinical rotations each semester, with the last year of the program being a full time clinical position known as an externship. There are distance programs that allow students to earn an AuD part time, online; however those programs are only for individuals who have already earned a Master's degree in Audiology (which as I mentioned, is no longer an option). If you already know you want to pursue the AuD, why go through the effort of earning the Master's in Speech? One is not a requirement of the other.