CSUN DL Graduates' Success on Licensing Exam

Periodically the question is asked: Do DL students really learn as much as on-campus students? One way to get a handle on that is to test graduates of both DL and on-campus programs, and see if the DL students do as well. Since entry into some fields involves licensing examinations, those exams can serve as an external verification of a DL program's success.

Students in the inaugural graduating class of Cal State Northridge's first entirely online degree program, a graduate program in speech-language pathology, achieved an 89.5 percent pass rate on their national certification exam‹matching the success of their on-campus counterparts and surpassing the national average on the test.

The test results are critical because to become speech-language pathologists and audiologists, students in the graduate program must pass the competency test for state licensing and professional certification by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. That group represents the nation's 103,000 therapists working in schools, hospitals and nursing homes.

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