2025 Best Audiology/Audiologist Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
5Colleges in the Southwest Region
65Doctor's Degrees
Ranked #41 in popularity, audiology/audiologist is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for audiology/audiologist students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 65 doctor's degrees in audiology/audiologist during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Audiology/Audiologist School for Your Doctor's Degree
The audiology doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality audiology program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to audiology/audiologist students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of audiology/audiologist students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized audiology/audiologist related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for audiology/audiologist students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Audiology/Audiologist Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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).