Two-year graduate program
The master's degree program includes 34 semester hours of core courses required for all candidates and 6 semester hours of advanced practicum. The final two semesters consist of a full-time 14-week medical internship and a full-time 14-week educational internship that can be completed throughout the state or country.
In addition to successful completion of coursework and internships, candidates must either pass oral and written comprehensive exams OR complete a creative research project/thesis. Students who complete the thesis option frequently present their research at state and national conferences such as ISHA or ASHA. Oral and written comprehensive exams are typically held on EIU's campus between internship experiences in the second year of study.
The majority of graduate candidates choose to take on-campus course and clinic requirements during four semesters (summer-fall-spring-summer) followed by two full-time 14 week internships in the medical and educational settings during the fall and spring terms, which results in May graduation. This is a six semester graduate program. Some students spread out the on-campus course and clinical requirements over 5 semesters (summer-fall-spring-summer-fall) and then go out to a full-time educational internship in the spring and a full-time medical in the summer. These students graduate in August. This is a seven semester graduate program. Therefore the standard expected number of terms for the graduate program is 6 to 7 semesters.
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