Graduate Student Outcome Data

Division of Communication Disorders

University of Wyoming

M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology- Student Outcome Data

Incoming Students

We accept 18 students a year into our residential graduate program and 6 students into our distance program. Our residential class is typically made up of one-third students who were our UWyo undergraduate majors, one-third who were UWyo levelers (with bachelor’s from another field), and one third out-of-state students. The distance class is typically made up of one-third Wyoming residents and two-thirds out-of-state students.

The undergraduate preparation is similar across the three types of students. However, there are some curricular differences that should be noted: UWyo undergraduates and levelers have taken courses in neurological bases of communication, research methods, and aural rehabilitation. Out-of-staters are often missing one to three of these courses  and must make them up while in the graduate program. We recommend students take those courses prior to commencing our graduate program.

Acceptance into the program is on a competitive basis. In the past three years, our residential applications have increased from 85 to 123. Distance applications have maintained at approximately 50. Table 1 shows the mean undergraduate GPA, GRE verbal-quantitative, and GRE writing scores for the past three years for students in our program.

Table 1. Recent Mean Performance of Students Starting Our Graduate Program

Note: Standard deviation in parentheses

Outgoing Students

ASHA-CAA requires that we report outcome data on our graduates (see Table 2). Most students complete the program within the designated schedule. Our pass rate on the Praxis is consistently 100%. Graduates gain employment as speech-language pathologists with no difficulty. About half stay in Wyoming and half take jobs out of the state. Most are employed in the schools.

Table 2. Recent Outcomes for Graduates of our Residential and Distance programs

Note: * = stayed out of job market for family reasons or did not report employment to the program.