2025 Best Speech Pathology & Audiology Schools in the Plains States Region
7Colleges in the Plains States Region
479Audiology Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in speech pathology & audiology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #103 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Speech Pathology & Audiology Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 479 degrees in speech pathology & audiology annually.
Choosing a Great Speech Pathology & Audiology School
Your choice of speech pathology & audiology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for speech pathology & audiology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Speech Pathology & Audiology Rankings by Degree Level
The audiology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Speech Pathology & Audiology Schools in the Plains States Region.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Speech Pathology & Audiology in the Plains States Region
The schools below may not offer all types of audiology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you wish to pursue a degree in speech pathology & audiology. UMN Twin Cities is a fairly large public university located in the city of Minneapolis. A Best Colleges rank of #45 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were roughly 43 speech pathology & audiology students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of Iowa if you want to pursue a degree in speech pathology & audiology. Located in the city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #80 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Iowa is a great university overall.
There were about 115 speech pathology & audiology students who graduated with this degree at Iowa in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of Missouri - Columbia if you want to pursue a degree in speech pathology & audiology. Located in the medium-sized city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #131 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Mizzou is a great university overall.
There were roughly 73 speech pathology & audiology students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent year we have data available.
Missouri State University - Springfield is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in speech pathology & audiology. Missouri State is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Springfield. This university ranks 10th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 98 speech pathology & audiology students who graduated with this degree at Missouri State in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the midsize suburb of Moorhead, MSU Moorhead is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 30th out of 52 colleges for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were approximately 41 speech pathology & audiology students who graduated with this degree at MSU Moorhead in the most recent data year.
Located in the large city of Lincoln, UNL is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 19 colleges for overall quality in the state of Nebraska.
There were about 45 speech pathology & audiology students who graduated with this degree at UNL in the most recent data year.
Located in the town of Warrensburg, UCM is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 21st out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 29 speech pathology & audiology students who graduated with this degree at UCM in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of speech pathology & audiology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for speech pathology & audiology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
