How Long Does It Take to Become a Speech Pathologist?

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"From start to finish, if you're looking at the length of what it takes to become a speech language pathologist, you first have to get your Bachelors degree, depending on if you're able to get all of the core requirements to start graduate school in those four years, or how ever long it takes you to get your Bachelors, then you'd move right in to your graduate degree. Those programs range any where from three or four semesters, through some of these online schools, I'm not sure if their longer or shorter, but I feel certain that three semesters of graduate school would be the minimal length, where the average would be more like four or five semesters. With your graduate degree, then you go and you work under the supervision of another speech language pathologist for thirty-six weeks, or nine months, approximately, to obtain your license. Once you get your degree, and then you go on and get your license, if you were working in a population, and what I mean population, I meant whether their children, their school age, their adults, if you didn't love it, try something else. It's not, I don't know that there are many jobs out there where you can look at a listing of ads that we get every couple of months that have places all over the country, or all over the world, for that matter, that are saying we need people with their CCC's to come here for this, then you want to go here for this. I mean, you're just looking at these states, I'm looking at them, I'm going, uh, that'd be great. But they are, there's a world of opportunity out there, and go. So find what it is that you like, your niche. Yes, it may take you a couple years, you might have to go through the schools and be like, mmm, or you're in skilled nursing home, and you're like, uh, find what you like, because then you're going to be better at what you do."