With a major in Communication Disorders, you can make a big difference in the life of someone challenged by speech or hearing problems. You might help a first-grader teased by classmates for her stutter. Or a grand-dad who wants to talk to his grandchildren over the telephone. Your degree will prepare you to work in Alabama’s public schools as an assistant to a speech therapist or go on to graduate school to become a licensed speech therapist or audiologist yourself. Then choose to work in the public school system, in a hospital, or set up your own private practice. AUM’s is one of the few Communication Disorders programs in the country where undergraduate students receive direct clinical experience with patients — and they can do it in AUM’s own Speech and Hearing Clinic.

A degree in Communications Disorders will give you excellent job prospects — with higher-than-average salaries. Employment of speech language pathologists and audiologists through 2024 is expected to grow more than 20%, much faster than the average for all occupations. And their median pay is in excess of $70,000 per year – higher than the median annual wage of all occupations.