Admission Requirements

Applicants to the Masters of Arts (MA) in Speech-Language Pathology program must:

  • Have an undergraduate GPA in the major of at least 3.0
  • Submit three (3) letters of recommendation
  • Submit a 300-word written statement of career goals
  • Submit GRE scores
  • Have the following undergraduate pre-requisite coursework in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology:
    • CSD 1710- Phonetics
    • CSD 1720- Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech System
    • CSD 1730- Language Acquisition
    • CSD 1740- Introduction to Hearing Science
    • CSD 2750- Introduction to Audiology
    • CSD 2760- Speech-Language Pathology I:  Language Disorders
    • CSD 2770- Speech-Language Pathology II: Speech Disorders
      21 credits

Description of the course content covered in the pre-requisites is available in our Undergraduate Bulletin (St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Speech-Language Pathology major).

You may complete these pre-requisites here at St. John’s or elsewhere. To take them at St John’s, you need to make an appointment with the Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and bring official transcripts of your earlier coursework.

You should have completed the pre-requisites (21 credits) above before matriculating, although you may apply while you are still enrolled in some of them.

In addition, you need to have:

  • 3 credits in Mathematics
  • 3 credits in Biological Sciences
  • 3 credits in Physical Sciences (e.g., Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Earth Sciences, and similar)
  • 6 credits in Social and Behavioral Sciences (e.g., Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology)
    15 credits

Some of the latter 15 credits may be completed after a student has been admitted in our graduate program although it is not recommended.  

Graduate Admission Information
Robert Medrano, Director
Office of Graduate Admission
(718) 990-2790
medranor@stjohns.edu