The main focus area for this major is Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Communication Sciences is a major offered under the health professions program of study at Lamar University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major master’s degree program in communication sciences, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time graduate students at Lamar University paid an average of $764 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $355 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $6,397 | $13,759 |
Fees | $1,940 | $1,940 |
communication sciences who receive their master’s degree from Lamar University make an average of $60,072 a year during the early days of their career. That is 11% higher than the national average of $54,322.
Online degrees for the Lamar University communication sciences master’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Lamar University Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their master’s degree in communication sciences in 2019-2020, all of them were women.
Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in communication sciences at Lamar University in 2019-2020, 28.6% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 23%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 4 |
Hispanic or Latino | 4 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 24 |
International Students | 1 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
Communication Sciences students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist | 35 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to communication sciences.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Mental & Social Health Services | 122 |
Public Health | 21 |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics | 13 |
Nursing | 14 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.