Admission Criteria

Undergraduate Admission

Entering Freshman are encouraged to enroll early for faculty advisement on appropriate courses. Formal admission to the major is made in the second semester of the sophomore year. An applicant must have a cumulative Grade Point Average of 3.2 when applying for program admission. Notification of admission is made by letter.

Graduate Admission

To qualify for admission to the graduate program, applicants must have an undergraduate degree in speech-language pathology (or its equivalent) or agree to complete all undergraduate prerequisites before continuing their graduate training. By the time students begin their program in August 2009, they will have met all four basic sciences and five of the seven CD prerequisites. By the time students begin their program in August 2010, all four basic sciences and all seven of the CD prerequisites must be met. Admission is competitive and based on four criteria:

1. Grade Point Average

2. Graduate Record Examination Scores (Beginning March 1, 2006, all applicants to the graduate program will be required to submit current GRE scores.)

3. 3 letters of recommendation. There is no special form that you need to use for the letters.

4. Letter of Intent

Applicants need to apply through WKU's Department of Graduate Studies. All materials must be received by Graduate Studies by February 15 for the following Fall cohort. All materials should be sent to Graduate Studies directly. It is the student's responsibility to be sure that all materials have been received by the deadline. In addition to the graduate school application, you need to fill out the departmental application and send it to the address shown on the application. Click here to download the application.

There is a predetermined sequence of coursework for all students with limited flexibility. Typically, a student is assigned to three different clinical externship sites. Clinical practicum sites include hospitals, schools, infant/toddler programs, and rehabilitation facilities. Clinical rotations between sites typically allow students to accrue at least 400 clinical clock-hours required by ASHA as they obtain experience in assessment and treatment of a variety of communication disorders.