PROGRAM OVERVIEW Admission Requirements Application Curriculum Clinical Experiences and Dress Code Financial Support and Program Cost Current Schedule Program Faculty Research Labs Research Grants Student Doctoral Projects UCSD AuD Website (new window) Contact

NOTICE! The Program welcomes out-of- state applicants. Some out-of-state fee (tuition) waivers are available to non-California residents for their first year. Students are eligible and encouraged to establish residency prior to the fall semester of Year 2. NEW: There will be an Open House for prospective students on Nov 7, 2008 (doc).

Program Overview

We invite prospective graduate students to visit our Graduate Access Page, or MyGAP. Using MyGAP you can be kept apprised of information about our audiology doctoral program (joint Au.D. program between SDSU and UCSD), as well as other relevant information about being a graduate student at SDSU.

San Diego State University (SDSU) and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) offer a joint doctoral program (AuD) in Audiology. The AuD Joint Doctoral Program involves faculty from the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences in the College of Health and Human Services at SDSU, and from the Division of Surgery (Otolaryngology) in the School of Medicine at UCSD. The joint doctoral program in audiology is accredited by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

The AuD program is a four-year graduate degree program designed for individuals who intend to specialize in clinical practice and to meet professional standards requiring a clinical doctorate as the entry-level degree for a certified/licensed audiologist. It is expected that students will come into this program from a variety of different science backgrounds, including speech, language, and hearing sciences, biological and physical sciences, engineering, psychology, nursing, or a pre-med curriculum.

The target enrollment for the AuD program is 10 students per year. Students must be enrolled full-time (12-15 units/semester) for four years (including some summer enrollment). Students will complete about 134 semester units, over 11 academic terms. Program begins in Fall term, and graduation occurs spring or summer of 4th year depending on when externship ends. Students participate in the graduation ceremony in May.

The program is comprised of the following six components (see curriculum for details).

• Academic Component
  (28 required professional courses: Years 1 and 3 at SDSU, Year 2 at UCSD, Year 4 is a full-time externship at an approved clinical facility).

• Research Component
  (a research methods course, a research lab rotation, and a doctoral project)

• Clinic Component
  (clinical staffing courses, supervised clinics at both campuses, and field work at community agencies, ~1100 hours)

• Full-time Clinical Externship
  (12 months full-time clinic placement at an approved agency, at least 1850 hours of clinical experience)

• Exams
  (First and Second Year Qualifying Exams, and a Third Year Comprehensive Exam)

See summary statistics for the Doctorate in Audiology (AuD) program, including program completion, employment, and PRAXIS exam pass rates.

last updated: 9/11/08