Does completion of the graduate program lead to an MA degree or an MS degree, and whats the difference?
The graduate degree offered by WCU’s program is the Master of Arts (MA) in Communicative Disorders. Some programs of communicative disorders offer a Master of Sciences (MS) degree. However, the content of the curriculum at the master’s level is structured according to the standards defined by ASHA’s Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, as indicated above. Therefore, when students graduate from a program that is accredited by the CAA. they are prepared for their Clinical Fellowship Year with the same basic education, regardless of whether the degree is an MA or an MS.
