General Communication Sciences & Disorders at Northern Arizona University

If you are interested in studying general communication sciences and disorders, you may want to check out the program at Northern Arizona University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

NAU is located in Flagstaff, Arizona and approximately 29,566 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 64 communication science majors received their bachelor's degree from NAU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Communication Sciences & Disorders section at the bottom of this page.

NAU General Communication Sciences & Disorders Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Science

NAU General Communication Sciences & Disorders Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communication science programs across the country. The following shows how NAU performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communication science major at NAU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Communication Sciences & Disorders. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	17
	21
Most Popular Communication Sciences & Disorders Schools	32
Best Value Communication Sciences & Disorders Bachelor’s Degree Schools	32
Best Communication Sciences & Disorders Bachelor’s Degree Schools	60
Best Communication Sciences & Disorders Schools	69
Most Focused Communication Sciences & Disorders Bachelor’s Degree Schools	73
Most Focused Communication Sciences & Disorders Schools	96

Communication Science Student Demographics at NAU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communication science majors at Northern Arizona University.

NAU General Communication Sciences & Disorders Bachelor’s Program

Of the 64 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in communication science from NAU in 2021, 8% were men and 92% were women. The typical communication science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 5% men. So male students are more repesented at NAU since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communication science at NAU are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its communication science bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northern Arizona University with a bachelor's in communication science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	37
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

NAU also has a doctoral program available in communication science. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist

Careers That Communication Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in communication science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AZ, the home state for Northern Arizona University.

Occupation	Jobs in AZ	Average Salary in AZ
Health Specialties Professors	3,660	$133,640
Speech-Language Pathologists	2,320	$74,710
Audiologists	210	$87,150

References

*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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Teksaz227 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.