Master's · earnings grade

Is a Communication Disorders Sciences degree worth it?

Graduates earn a median $56,641 two years after finishing, more than 51% of master's majors. Measured across 315 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.

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The verdict on the money

It pays around the middle. What you earn will depend more on where you study and what you do with it than on the subject label.

Median earnings $56,641 2 years after finishing · per graduate
Typical range $51,607–$60,452 middle half of US programmes
Over no degree +$17,121 vs $39,520 high-school median
Graduates a year 10,166 315 programmes

Where a Communication Disorders Sciences degree pays best US programmes ranked on their own graduates' median earnings two years out.

#University1 yr out2 yrs out3 yrs outGraduates/yr
1 Loma Linda University cost & debt at this university → $62,863 $74,405 $80,454 34
2 San Jose State University cost & debt at this university → $69,190 $73,635 $77,659 48
3 California State University-Fresno cost & debt at this university → $65,612 $73,530 $68,371 36
4 Teachers College at Columbia University $64,942 $73,112 $74,542 68
5 California State University-Long Beach cost & debt at this university → $65,885 $72,403 $76,766 24
6 San Diego State University cost & debt at this university → $71,000 $70,456 $75,014 44
7 California State University-East Bay $78,406 $70,456 $73,621 25
8 University of Redlands cost & debt at this university → $71,278 $70,009 $75,742 32
9 Texas A&M University-Kingsville cost & debt at this university → $63,811 $69,338 $72,336 33
10 CUNY Lehman College $65,755 $69,338 $74,226 3
11 Long Island University cost & debt at this university → $65,621 $68,918 $75,241 116
12 San Francisco State University cost & debt at this university → $70,258 $68,858 $77,691 41

What this figure does and does not tell you

Two medians are worth separating. $56,641 is what the typical graduate earns — each programme counted in proportion to how many students it graduates. $55,724 is what the typical programme reports, counting a class of twenty the same as a class of two thousand. The weighted figure is higher here, which means the larger programmes in this field are the better-paying ones.

It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median master's major in this dataset reports $52,837, so Communication Disorders Sciences sits above the middle by $3,804.

Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".

There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.

Communication Disorders Sciences at other levels

Bachelor's — $26,353 (F)

Majors that pay more at this level Closest first — useful if you are still choosing.

Marketing — $58,693 Homeland Security — $59,124 Accounting — $59,954 Rehabilitation — $61,516 Healthcare Administration — $62,818 Biotechnology — $63,005

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Communication Disorders Sciences: the questions people ask

How much do Communication Disorders Sciences graduates earn?
The median master's graduate earns $56,641 two years after finishing (weighting each programme by how many students it graduates), across 221 US programmes that publish the figure. One year out it is $54,977.
Is a Communication Disorders Sciences degree worth it?
It pays around the middle. What you earn will depend more on where you study and what you do with it than on the subject label. The median graduate earns $17,121 a year more than a US worker whose highest qualification is a high-school diploma.
What is the salary range for Communication Disorders Sciences?
Half of US programmes report medians between $51,607 and $60,452. Where you study moves this figure more than most applicants expect.
How many people graduate in Communication Disorders Sciences each year?
About 10,166 students complete a master's in this field each year across 315 US programmes.
Does this include student debt?
No — and deliberately. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not debt, so any "debt by major" figure you see elsewhere is an estimate. Debt is published per institution, which is why our university pages carry it and this page does not.
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Classified by the Department of Education as Communication Disorders Sciences and Services (CIP 5102). Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.