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Start Your SLP Career with Less Standing in Your Way
Fewer obstacles. Less cost. More lives changed through communication.
Your future career shouldn't come with unnecessary delays or expenses. The Thiel College Online Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology (M.S. SLP) helps you reach your goals sooner, spend less on your education, and balance life's responsibilities—without compromising the preparation you need to become a confident, practice-ready clinician. Develop the clinical knowledge, hands-on skills, and professional confidence needed to serve diverse populations with communication and swallowing disorders and take the next step toward becoming a speech-language pathologist.
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Start your career with less standing in your way: You shouldn't have to spend more time, take more credits, or pay more tuition than necessary to become an SLP. Thiel College offers a streamlined path to practice that balances the realities of your budget and schedule.
Build the clinical confidence to change lives: Confidence is developed through hands-on experience, clinical application, and meaningful practice. Thiel College's curriculum combines academic rigor with real-world learning, so you graduate ready to serve diverse clients across SLP settings.
Personalized support that helps you go further: Earning your degree is only part of the journey. Thiel College pairs personalized guidance with proven outcomes to help you stay on track, overcome obstacles, and move confidently toward becoming a speech-language pathologist.
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Start your career with less standing in your way: You shouldn't have to spend more time, take more credits, or pay more tuition than necessary to become an SLP. Thiel College offers a streamlined path to practice that balances the realities of your budget and schedule.
Build the clinical confidence to change lives: Confidence is developed through hands-on experience, clinical application, and meaningful practice. Thiel College's curriculum combines academic rigor with real-world learning, so you graduate ready to serve diverse clients across SLP settings.
Personalized support that helps you go further: Earning your degree is only part of the journey. Thiel College pairs personalized guidance with proven outcomes to help you stay on track, overcome obstacles, and move confidently toward becoming a speech-language pathologist.
Student Outcome Data
Student outcomes reflect our commitment to helping future speech-language pathologists achieve their academic and professional goals. Thiel College regularly tracks key measures of student success, including program completion, Praxis exam performance, and employment outcomes, to ensure graduates are prepared for the next step in their careers.
The outcome data below reflects graduates of Thiel College's campus-based M.S. SLP program. As students progress through the online modality, outcomes will be reported and updated in accordance with accreditation requirements.
| Period | # taking exam | # passed exam | Pass rate % |
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| 2022 - 2023 | 18 | 15 | 83.33% |
| 2023 - 2024 | 17 | 13 | 76.47% |
| 2024 - 2025 | 21 | 20 | 95.24% |
Overall Pass Rate by Test Year: 86%
| Period | # taking exam | # passed exam | Pass rate % |
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| 2022 - 2023 | 12 | 12 | 100% |
| 2023 - 2024 | 16 | 16 | 100% |
| 2024 - 2025 | 18 | 18 | 100% |
Overall Pass Rate by Cohort: 100%
| Period | # completing program within expected time frame | % completing program within expected time frame |
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| 2022 - 2023 | 17 | 100% |
| 2023 - 2024 | 21 | 100% |
| 2024 - 2025 | 25 | 100% |
Overall Program Completion Rate: 100%
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Cohort Graduation Year |
# of graduates |
% of graduates |
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2022 - 2023 |
17 |
100% |
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2023 - 2024 |
21 |
100% |
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2024 - 2025 |
25 |
100% |
Overall Employment Rate: 100%
Where Can I Work with an M.S. SLP?
An M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology prepares you to pursue state licensure and ASHA certification, opening the door to a rewarding career helping individuals communicate and thrive. Licensed speech-language pathologists can work in a variety of settings, giving you flexibility and autonomy to evolve throughout your career.
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28,200
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$95,410
Median annual salary for SLPs
Source: bls.gov
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Schools & Educational SettingsImage
Help children develop communication, language, and literacy skills while collaborating with teachers and families to support academic success.
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Hospitals & Acute CareImage
Assess and treat patients with communication, cognitive, and swallowing disorders resulting from stroke, brain injury, trauma, or other medical conditions.
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Rehabilitation & Long-Term Care FacilitiesImage
Support adults recovering from illness or injury through speech, cognitive, and swallowing therapy in rehabilitation centers and skilled nursing facilities.
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Deliver individualized therapy for children and adults while building long-term relationships with clients and families in community settings.
Online M.S. SLP Curriculum Sample
Our curriculum combines academic rigor with real-world learning. Wondering what you'll study first? The courses below are examples from the first and second term, where you will begin building a foundation in speech, language, neurological, and cognitive-communication disorders across the lifespan.
This course integrates neuroanatomy and neurophysiology as it relates to communication disorders. Pathologies of the central nervous system associated with progressive and non-progressive disorders will be examined.
Lab component includes experiential learning, application activities, and skills competency assessment.
This course provides information about the potential etiologies and characteristics of speech sound disorders in children and adults. Students will learn specifics about assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders across the lifespan and diverse populations. The use of evidence-based management approaches will be highlighted.
Lab component includes experiential learning, application activities, and skills competency assessment.
This course considers the characteristics and developmental patterns of the fluency disorders (i.e., developmental stuttering, neurogenic stuttering, functional speech disorder, cluttering) as well as differential diagnosis, assessment, and treatment. Intervention will include traditional methods for increasing speech fluency as well as counseling-based approaches that address affective features often present in diverse individuals across the lifespan.
Lab component includes experiential learning, application activities, and skills competency assessment.
This course presents language and cognitive communicative disorders that result from neurological impairment in adults. Special emphasis will be provided to the aphasias, right hemisphere impairment, traumatic brain injury, and the dementias. Etiological factors that affect varied cultural groups (e.g., hypertension, sickle cell disease, substance abuse) will be discussed. Assessment, treatment, and management issues with varied clinical and cultural populations will be emphasized.
Lab component includes experiential learning, application activities, and skills competency assessment.
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Faculty-Guided Practicum
The clinical practicum experience is guided and directed by Thiel College, pairing you alongside an on-site practicum supervisor at the site where you will complete your hours. The M.S. SLP faculty and staff at Thiel determine practicum site eligibility based on certification and licensure requirements.
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Placement Services
Placement services help to facilitate and secure agreements with clinical practicum sites near your home location.
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Travel Expectations
Our placement team works closely with you to navigate the clinical placement process and collaborates with you to identify placement opportunities in your preferred location. In geographic regions with limited placement options, you may need to travel 125 miles each way to meet clinical training requirements across the breadth and depth of clinical practice.
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Hands-On Experience
The clinical experiences are designed to provide you with real-world, hands-on experience across the breadth and depth of speech-language pathology clinical practice. These experiences are arranged in a variety of practice settings near your home.
To become a speech-language pathologist (SLP), you must earn a master's degree in speech-language pathology or communication sciences and disorders, complete supervised clinical experiences, and meet state licensure and certification requirements. Thiel's Online M.S. SLP combines academic coursework, clinical preparation, and 400 supervised clinical hours to help prepare you to begin to pursue licensure and certification after graduation.
Thiel College is designed to help you become a speech-language pathologist without spending more time or money than necessary. With a streamlined curriculum (up to 19 fewer credits than some local competitors) and tuition below the national average for online SLP programs, you can pursue your degree while keeping your goals, budget, and schedule in focus.
Yes, applicants must complete prerequisite coursework before beginning the program. If you have eligibility questions, complete a form to register for an upcoming information session.
Our online program is designed around real life, so you can study part-time and continue working, earning, and managing your responsibilities until clinicals. Clinical experiences often require additional scheduling flexibility as they are a full-time load.
Tuition is $1,000 per credit hour for a total tuition cost of $54,000 (without fees). With tuition approximately 13% below the national average 1 for online SLP programs, you can pursue your future with less financial strain at Thiel College.
Yes, our curriculum is designed to provide the academic and clinical preparation needed to begin pursuing speech-language pathology state licensure and professional certification after graduation. Because licensure requirements vary by state, we encourage you to review state-specific requirements through ASHA's State-by-State Licensure Information.
The distance pathway for the Master of Science (M.S.) program in Speech-Language Pathology at Thiel College is under review by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Thiel College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). MSCHE is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation.
Yes, Thiel College provides personalized clinical placement support to help you navigate the placement process and identify locations that align with program requirements and learning objectives.
Our team works closely with you to identify placement opportunities as close to your home as possible. Depending on site availability and program requirements, some students may need to travel up to 125 miles each way to complete clinical experiences that provide the breadth and depth of training required for speech-language pathology practice.
Yes. You need to complete one four-day residency in Greenville, Pennsylvania, near the end of the program. The residency includes hands-on learning experiences and serves as an opportunity to connect with faculty and peers before graduation.
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Small cohorts, personalized attention, and clinical placement support help ensure you reach your full potential. At Thiel College, student success is measured by more than graduation. It is reflected in the outcomes our students achieve after completing the program.
Footnote: Based on reported outcomes from Thiel College's campus-based M.S. SLP program.
