Counseling - EdS with emphasis in Community or School Overview
Type: Graduate
The Ed.S. Degree in Counseling is an advanced graduate counseling degree designed to allow professionally trained mental health practitioners to re-specialize or further specialize within the discipline of professional counseling. The program requires prior completion of a master’s degree in counseling (or its equivalent) and requires the completion of 30 (Option I) to 32 (Option II and III) semester hours of coursework, including a 15 semester hour core and 15-17 semester hours of electives in a specialty in counseling. (Option I requires completion of an Ed.S. level thesis.)
Career Opportunities
- Professional Counseling
For more information
College of Education
eMail: dhurford@pittstate.edu
List of Courses
Graduate Admission Requirements
Psychology & Counseling (Ed.S):
Admission to an Ed.S program in the department of Psychology and Counseling requires a Master's degree in psychology, counseling or a related field and a passing GRE score of at least 800 for the verbal and quantitative sections combined and a 3.5 or above on the analytical writing area. However, students who do not meet these requirements are still encouraged to apply. These students can be conditionally admitted to the program with other requirements added.
Admission also requires submission of the following:
- A departmental application (in addition to the application for the Graduate School) and non-refundable application fee
($40 for domestic students, $10 plus the cost of the criminal background check in the student's country for international students)
- A consent for release of criminal background check
- A personal statement of career goals
- 3 completed professional recommendation forms
- All official degree statement transcripts
Please submit these to the department Chair, Dr. David Hurford, 620-235-4521, dhurford@pittstate.edu.
One can matriculate into the programs at three different times: Fall, Spring or Summer. Application deadlines are: Summer or Fall Admission, March 1st; and Spring Admission, October 1st. Applications will be considered for Spring admission, but please note that this will extend the student's program of study by one semester. Normally applications that remain inactive for more than 30 days or that are incomplete after the next application deadline are considered no longer active and will be denied.
For International students, a TOEFL score of 550/79 or an IELTS score of 6.5 overall and in all bands is required. Applicants cannot substitute the Intensive English Program for the TOEFL for admission to this department.