Program Overview

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Overview

The School of Audiology and Speech Sciences offers a program leading to the Ph.D. with professional specialty in one of the following areas: acquired language and cognitive communication disorders, bilingualism, developmental language disorders, developmental phonetics and phonology, discourse analysis, dysphagia, electrophysiologic and otoacoustic emissions diagnosis, hearing science, language acquisition, phonological and phonetic disorders, psycholinguistics, speech perception, and speech understanding in the elderly.

What makes the program unique?

The School of Audiology and Speech Sciences (SASS) in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC is the only Ph.D. program in British Columbia that offers doctoral education in the field of human communication, its disorders, and related areas. SASS faculty are internationally renowned for their research. In addition to mentoring and training Ph.D. students, faculty members are regularly sought after to provide specific expertise.

Quick Facts

• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine
• Academic Unit: School of Audiology and Speech Sciences
• Specialization: Audiology and Speech Sciences
• Mode of delivery: In person at UBC Vancouver
• Program Components: Dissertation
• Tuition (First Year): Domestic: $5,626.02, International: $9,883.98
• Median Funding: 50% of students receive $5,690 or more funding per year in the first 4 years, before tuition and fees

Admission Information & Requirements

Program Instructions

Eligibility for admission will be decided by the Doctoral Studies Committee. The Committee will consist of the Graduate Advisor and a minimum of three other full members of the graduate faculty who are full-time faculty at the School.

Minimum Academic Requirements

The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies establishes the minimum admission requirements common to all applicants, usually a minimum overall average in the B+ range (76% at UBC).

English Language Test

Applicants from a university outside Canada in which English is not the primary language of instruction must provide results of an English language proficiency examination as part of their application.

Prior Degree Requirements

An applicant to the doctoral program should have completed a master's degree, typically in audiology and speech sciences, psychology, linguistics, or a related discipline.

Document Requirements

If you are a non-native English speaker, and you do not have at least four years of continuous post-secondary education in an English-speaking university, you must provide proof of proficiency in English.

Other Requirements

Please indicate in your application if you would like to be considered for full-time or part-time classification for your PhD.

Research Information

Program Components

Students are required to take courses in research methodology and in major and minor areas of specialization, with the sequence of courses and seminars totaling at least 18 credits beyond the master's degree.

Tuition & Financial Support

Tuition

Fees for Canadian Citizen / Permanent Resident / Refugee / Diplomat: $5,626.02 per year, for International: $9,883.98 per year.

Financial Support

Applicants to UBC have access to a variety of funding options, including merit-based and need-based opportunities.

Career Outcomes

7 students graduated between 2005 and 2013. Of these, career information was obtained for 7 alumni. Sample employers include University of British Columbia, Universite de Saint-Boniface, University of Alberta, and BC Family Hearing Resource Society.

Research Supervisors

All applicants need firm commitment from a supervisor prior to applying. The list of faculty members with full supervisory privileges who are affiliated with this program includes:

• Black, Alexis
• Ciocca, Valter
• Colozzo, Paola
• Herdman, Anthony
• Howe, Tami
• Jenstad, Lorienne
• Marinova-Todd, Stefka
• Shahnaz, Navid
• Skoretz, Stacey
• Sladen, Douglas
• Small, Jeff

Sample Thesis Submissions

• Frequency and cochlear place specificity of narrowband chirps for auditory brainstem response audiometry
• "I used to be a storyteller" : the communication needs of people with primary progressive aphasia and their family members

Related Programs

• Master of Science in Audiology and Speech Sciences, Sub-Specialization in Audiology (MSc)
• Master of Science in Audiology and Speech Sciences, Sub-Specialization in Speech-Language Pathology (MSc)

Further Information

Specialization

Audiology and Speech Sciences endeavours to advance knowledge of human communication and its disorders by actively engaging in research, and by educating individuals to become audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and researchers.

Faculty

Faculty of Medicine

Academic Unit

School of Audiology and Speech Sciences

Program Identifier

VGDPHD-CE

Classification

Medical, health and life sciences » Health sciences » Rehabilitation medicine » Speech pathology, Medical, health and life sciences » Health sciences » Rehabilitation medicine » Audiology

Enrolment, Duration & Other Stats

These statistics show data for the Doctor of Philosophy in Audiology and Speech Sciences (PhD). Data are separated for each degree program combination.

• Applications: 0 (2023), 2 (2022), 3 (2021), 3 (2020), 5 (2019)
• Offers: 0 (2023), 0 (2022), 2 (2021), 0 (2020), 3 (2019)
• New Enrolment: 0 (2023), 0 (2022), 2 (2021), 0 (2020), 3 (2019)
• Total Enrolment: 7 (2023), 7 (2022), 8 (2021), 8 (2020), 7 (2019)