Loyola College in Maryland

For over fifty years, Loyola has offered an outstanding and relevant complement of advanced professional degree, certificate, certification and pre-licensure programs. These offerings provide students with a graduate classroom setting that serves as a professional forum. Testing concepts and exchanging ideas between students and faculty translates into relevant skills that can be applied immediately on the job. With sophisticated facilities situated throughout the metropolitan area, Loyola's main campus and dedicated graduate centers in Timonium and Columbia, are conveniently located near the homes or workplaces of the Baltimore/Washington region's professional communities.

Accomplished professionals themselves, most members of Loyola's faculty are connected in significant ways to their fields of expertise. Many provide service to their professions as clinicians, consultants and agents of change - often on the leading edge of research and development. As scholar-practitioners, a number of Loyola's faculty are active in advanced projects and research that engage the community of scholars represented at the college, in the classrooms they teach and in the field.

Loyola's faculty are committed to teaching since that's what benefits their students most directly. The classroom at Loyola, particularly at the graduate level, becomes a professional forum - a place where ideas are tested and information shared. Faculty bring their expertise to the classroom to foster discourse in an environment of mutual respect and value-oriented exchange.

MS in Speech-Language Pathology

The graduate program in speech-language pathology is dedicated to the education and development of superior professionals prepared for careers as speech-language pathologists. These programs, accredited by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) are designed to challenge pre-professionals academically, clinically and personally, and lead to licensure eligibility.

The Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology is a two-year full time program that requires the successful completion of 36 credit-hours of academic coursework and nine hours of clinical training including a minimum of 400 practicum hours. Students are provided with supervised clinical experiences matched to their level of clinical expertise. The program offers the clinical practice experience starting with the Loyola College clinical settings that are supervised by the clinical/academic faculty. As students progress, they are placed in a variety of settings to provide a carefully controlled progression of difficulty.

Advanced students may be placed in hospital/school/rehabilitation settings, work with complex clinical problems and/or conduct clinical research with the faculty. Loyola's solid reputation in speech-language pathology is built upon the excellence of its approach to clinical training. Graduates of the degree program are eligible to sit for the comprehensive examinations that lead to the Certificates of Clinical Competence.

The graduate program in speech-language pathology at Loyola College in Maryland enjoys a highly regarded reputation throughout the mid-Atlantic region. An excellent student-to-faculty ratio, state-of-the-art clinical facilities, a wide diversity of clinical placement opportunities and excellent job placement record are hallmarks of the program. Pursuing an advanced degree through this ASHA-accredited program provides a skill-set and professional standards that lead to numerous career opportunities.

Post-Baccalaureate Foundation Program

Prospective students whose undergraduate major or degree is in a field other than speech-language pathology or communication disorders have the opportunity to pursue foundation courses through a one year pre-requisite program. The Post-Baccalaureate Foundation Program includes a lock-step series of eight courses (24 credit-hours) and 25 observation-hours that can be completed in an additional year prior to the Master of Science degree program. Students in this program enjoy all the benefits of Loyola’s top-rate graduate program, including highly-regarded faculty and state-of-the-art facilities.

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