Master of Arts in Professional Counseling (School Counselor Concentration, Early Childhood Through Grade 12 Professional Certification)

The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) accredited program features internationally known faculty, two state-of-the-art community counseling clinics where students provide counseling to under-served populations, and a rigorous curriculum focusing on experiential learning integrated with the application of didactic, research-based knowledge. Core tenets emphasized throughout the program include diversity, advanced ethics, professional development, and self-awareness.
The Master of Arts in Professional Counseling offers a required course sequence that builds clinical skills through didactic and experiential activities. The curriculum includes core foundational instruction in theories, clinical interventions, assessment, advanced ethics, diversity, and research. In addition to basic skills and intermediate methods courses with specialty populations, students complete a clinical practicum experience in our clinics, and internship experiences at counseling sites across the Central Texas area.
The professional counseling program believes that well-prepared counselors are involved and committed to a process of intentional growth promoting pro-social autonomy, lifelong learning and ethical behavior. These ideals are fostered within a dynamic and multi-modal learning setting in which diversity, critical thinking, self-in-context, scholarship, praxis and the creation and integration of knowledge are celebrated. The program maintains the highest standards of counselor education which garners local, national and international recognition in providing excellence in academic and clinical preparation for the development of counseling professionals.

baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited university
official transcripts from each institution where course credit was granted
minimum 3.0 GPA in the last 60 hours of undergraduate course work (plus any completed graduate courses)
official GRE (general test only) with competitive scores in the verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning sections
The GRE may be waived if the student holds a master's or doctoral degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution. If the student holds a master's or doctoral degree (or the equivalent thereof) from an accredited international institution, the GRE may be waived on an individual basis.
informed consent form
resume/CV detailing unique competencies that contribute to an aptitude for graduate study, personal experiences, such as volunteer work, that have aided in preparations for a career in counseling, additional language skills, technological competence and computer literacy
statement of purpose (maximum 750 words, typed and double-spaced) addressing the following-
professional goals and rational for pursuing education and training in professional counseling as opposed to another mental health discipline such as psychology, social work, or counseling psychology
rationale for choosing the school counseling concentration
major strengths and weaknesses with respect to being admitted into the program
perspective on diversity including
personal contributions to and benefits from the richness of the professional counseling program
ways to increase inclusion of diversity in the counseling profession
three forms of recommendation (not general reference letters)

TOEFL iBT - overall scores 89 with minimum individual scores of (22 listening, 22 reading, 24 speaking, 21 writing)