Loma Linda University is a small private university located about 70 mile east of Los Angeles. It is operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Department of Speech-Language Pathology is relatively small. It has six full-time faculty members, one part-time faculty member, additional contract faculty, and approximately 50 to 60 students. This student-teacher ratio allows for personal contact with faculty members.
Speech-language pathology is a good profession for individuals who want to work in a helping profession. Typically, students choosing this profession have good academic abilities, compassionate personalities, and positive interpersonal skills. 
Clinical education is a strength of this department. Clinical experience is available in areas such as child and adult language, fluency, swallowing, and articulation phonology. Our clinical settings range from hospital to schools to private clinics. Our undergraduate students get their first introduction to clinic in a faculty supervised setting. This is a valuable experience and allows students to know if this career is for them.
In many of the clinical settings, students are required to be able to model the sounds and the sentence structure of American English for the clients. We have had many students who speak with accents or dialects. However, the student must be able to provide an American English model even if this is not his/her typical way of speaking.
Loma Linda University offers three programs of study
The BS degree is a taken by students who have completed two years of general education. The remaining two years of the major are taken at Loma Linda University. The program has a GPA requirement of 3.00.
The transitional master's program prepares students for graduate level coursework in speech-language pathology. Students who have an undergraduate degree in a profession other than speech-language pathology (also know as Communication Disorders) complete undergraduate foundational course in the first year of study. This means that in the first year of this program students are taking classes with both the junior and senior student. The student must maintain a GPA of 3.3 in these foundational courses to advance to the graduate-level coursework. The graduate-level coursework takes two years to complete. At the end of this three-year program, the student receives an MS in speech-language pathology. The master's degree is the entry level for practice in most states and for certification by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
The MS degree is taken by students who have an undergraduate degree in speech-language pathology. Applications for the fall term are due in the School of Allied Health Professions by February 1. The School does not send applications to the department until they are complete. This includes the application, letters of recommendation, test scores, etc. You may apply online at www.llu.edu. The GPA requirement for the master's program is 3.3 or above.
Speech Language Department
School of Allied Health Professions
Loma Linda University
Nichol Hall Room A506
Loma Linda Ca 92350
Toll free phone: (800) 422-4558-1-4
Department phone: (909) 558-4998
Fax: (909) 558-4291
Email: sppa@llu.edu
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Last Revised: Thu, Mar 22, 2007