Description

Academic Bridge Program will provide you with extra academic support for one semester prior to gaining full admission to Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM). During the Bridge semester, you will be enrolled in courses designed specifically for "bridging the gap" to a continued and successful college career. Bridge courses consist of a University Success course, as well as a Math and/or English course. Throughout the semester, faculty and staff on our Bridge team will assist you by teaching you skills needed for success in college. The Bridge Program connects you with campus resources so that you can thrive at AUM.

With a major in Communication Disorders, you can make a big difference in the life of someone challenged by speech or hearing problems. You might help a first-grader teased by classmates for her stutter. Or a grand-dad who wants to talk to his grandchildren over the telephone. Your degree will prepare you to work in Alabama’s public schools as an assistant to a speech therapist or go on to graduate school to become a licensed speech therapist or audiologist yourself. Then choose to work in the public school system, in a hospital, or set up your own private practice. AUM’s is one of the few Communication Disorders programs in the country where undergraduate students receive direct clinical experience with patients — and they can do it in AUM’s own Speech and Hearing Clinic.

A degree in Communications Disorders will give you excellent job prospects — with higher-than-average salaries.  Employment of speech language pathologists and audiologists through 2024 is expected to grow more than 20%, much faster than the average for all occupations. And their median pay is in excess of $70,000 per year – higher than the median annual wage of all occupations.