Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours)

Secure your future with highly specialised training, exciting placements and flexible outcomes.

When you study a Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours), you are accessing the most comprehensive degree of its kind in Australia. Open up experiences and job opportunities like no other when you study this program.

Speech pathologists assess and treat children and adults with communication and swallowing disorders. This spans across developmental and acquired speech and language disorders, cleft lip and palate, voice disorders and stuttering.

Course overview

You will learn and develop the necessary skills to confidently take on the full range of conditions that speech pathologists assess and treat including:

• Acquired and developmental communication disorders (e.g. speech and language, cognitive communication, fluency, voice)
• Swallowing disorders

Students will study a variety of foundation courses including, but not limited to:

• Linguistics
• Psychology
• Bioscience
• Anatomy
• Health Sciences
• Statistics

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC), the highest educational award in New South Wales schools.

Applicants who do not speak English as a first language must demonstrate that they meet the University's English proficiency requirement. Further information regarding English language proficiency requirements can be found at the English Language Proficiency for Admission Policy.

In the application portal, you can enter the program you wish to study and upload relevant documents needed as part of your application. It is recommended you submit your application a minimum of 12 weeks before your intended semester of trimester start date.

Gain professionally accredited expertise in all areas of speech pathology. The strong experience-based nature of this degree, along with an internationally recognised professional accreditation, prepares University of Newcastle graduates for immediate professional employment.

Professional Outcomes:

• Speech Pathologist
• Health Promotion Officer
• Rehabilitation Consultant
• Research Scientist
• University Lecturer/Academic (with relevant higher degree qualifications)

Graduate Outcome Survey 2022-2024, Undergraduate Health Services and Support