KU grads go on to find career success
The high level of education and training provided to students at the University of Kansas prepares you well for a successful career in your chosen field. Our graduates secure leading roles in clinical practice, in school settings, in academia and many other areas.
See below the remarkable number of positions currently or formerly held by our graduates.
Graduates of our audiology program currently hold or have previously held the following positions in clinical settings:
- Alaska Center for Ear, Nose, & Throat (ACENT)
- American Institute of Balance
- Ascension Medical Group St. John Bartlesville
- Ascentist Physician Group
- Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Children's Mercy Hospital
- Hearing & Balance Specialists of KC
- Hearts for Hearing
- House Ear Institute
- Island Audiology, Hawaii
- Massachusetts’s Eye & Ear Infirmary
- Mid America Balance Institute
- Salina Regional Health
- Seaport Community Health Center
- Seattle ENT
- St. Luke's Health System
- Topeka ENT
- US Navy Medicine and Readiness Training Command, Yokosuka, Japan
- Veteran's Affairs Medical Centers
- Via Christie Medical Center
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Audiology Extern
Graduates of our audiology program currently hold or have previously held the following positions in management settings:
- Advanced Audiology of Greater Omaha, owner and audiologist
- Associated Audiologists, owner and audiologist
- Carl R. Darnell Army Medical Center, chief clinical audiologist
- Children's Mercy, director, hearing and speech department
- Hear Better Audiology, Taupo, New Zealand, owner and audiologist
- Hearing Doctors of Iowa, owner and audiologist
- Kansas Speech Language Hearing Association (KSHA), executive director
- Kaw Valley Hearing , owner and audiologist
- Navy Camp Lejeune, assistant department head occupational audiology
- University of Kansas Medical Center, director, neuroaudiology clinic
Graduates of our audiology program currently hold or have previously held the following positions in school settings:
- Greenbush multi district (KS)
- Millard School District
- Multi-District Deaf Hard of Hearing Program (MDDHP)
- Topeka Schools
Graduates of our audiology program currently hold or have previously held the following positions in industry settings:
- Advanced Bionics
- MED-EL
- Sivantos
- Oticon
- Phonak
- Starkey
Graduates of our audiology program currently hold or have previously held the following positions in academic settings:
- Boys Town, Nebraska, research assistant professor
- Missouri State University, associate professor
- University of Kansas, multiple faculty members
- University of Miami, post-doctoral fellow
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, clinical audiologist
- Washington University School of Medicine, assistant professor
- Wichita State University, clinical instructor
Graduates of our speech-language pathology program currently hold or have previously held the following positions in clinical and research settings:
- Bilingual Pediatric Therapy
- Boston Medical Center, speech-language pathologist
- Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Tallahassee, FL and Myrtle Beach, SC
- Henry Ford, Detroit, MI
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, program officer
- Northern Navaho Medical Center, New Mexico, speech-language pathologist
- Swedish Hospital, Englewood, CO, Speech-language pathologist
- TARC, Inc.
- University of Kansas Medical Center
- US Department of Veteran’s Affairs in Madison, Wisconsin
Graduates of our speech-language pathology program currently hold or have previously held the following positions in school settings:
- Kansas City School District, speech-language pathologist
- Los Angeles Unified School District, speech-language pathologist
- Topeka Public School District, speech-language pathologist
Graduates of our speech-language pathology program currently hold or have previously held the following positions in academic settings:
- Baylor University, Waco, Texas, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders
- California State University, Fullerton, assistant professor
- Florida Atlantic University, assistant professor
- Maryville University of St. Louis, program director of SLP
- University of Missouri-Columbia, assistant professor
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, assistant professor
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, lecturer and clinical supervisor in the Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, pediatric speech-language pathologist for the Floortime Center
- Utah State University, assistant professor
- Yeshiva University, New York City, clinical assistant professor
Growth of the field
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the fields of audiology and speech-language pathology are growing faster than the average for other U.S. occupations. Hearing loss increases as people age, so an aging population is likely to increase demand for audiologists and speech-language pathologists. The early identification and diagnosis of hearing disorders in infants and children also will spur employment growth.