… Professions welcomed its first cohort of Doctor of Audiology students to campus last month, filling a void as the only AuD program in Eastern Massachusetts after two … their programs in recent years. The program’s launch comes at a critical time for another reason -currently, there’s a shortage of roughly 10,000 audiologists in … when more AuD programs are desperately needed,” she said. Abigail Wenner, AuD '26, spent her undergraduate years in a rural area, where the patient population was …