Every state issues the school counselor credential through its Department of Education, not through a clinical licensing board. That means state DOE approval is what gets you certified, not CACREP accreditation. The universal baseline is a master’s degree from a …
Paying for a school counseling master’s degree takes strategy, not luck. Most students combine multiple funding sources, including assistantships, employer tuition benefits, federal grants, and scholarships, to reduce borrowing before it starts. Federal loans paired with Public Service Loan Forgiveness …
The fastest CACREP-accredited online school counseling master’s programs we verified take about 22 months to two years full-time. The University of Denver advertises as few as 22 months, and Messiah University publishes a two-year sequence. Supervised fieldwork, at least 700 …
The best online school counseling programs pair CACREP accreditation with real-time skills training, manageable travel, and real help finding a fieldwork site where you live. All 29 programs below are CACREP-accredited. They differ in how much live class time they …