StudyQA — Master: Counseling and Student Development

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The Department of Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs at Kansas State University has four academic components: * Special Education
* Counselor Education and School Counseling
* Student Affairs in Higher Education and College Student Development
* Academic Advising

These components have a mission of preparing knowledgeable, ethical, caring decision makers who demonstrate inclusive perspectives toward the contexts of groups and institutions; student development and learning; teaching and guidance; inquiry and research methods; and research-enlightened clinical application, consultation, and practice.
Faculty in Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs serve the Department's mission in four areas of professional commitment: * Delivery of exemplary instruction to undergraduate and graduate students.
* Production, interpretation, and dissemination of sound and useful research, scholarship, and other creative works.
* Leadership, consultation, collaboration, and service within the profession.
* Promotion, understanding, and celebration of diversity.

Courses include:
* Independent Study in Counseling and Educational Psychology
* Interpersonal Relations in the Schools
* Middle School Classroom Guidance
* Principles of Assessment
* Mental Health in Schools
* The Teacher and Child Abuse
* Drug Abuse Education
* Readings in Counseling and Educational Psychology
* Topics in Counseling and Educational Psychology
* Problems in Counseling and Educational Psychology
* Stress Management for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
* History and Philosophy of Higher Education
* Using Tests in Counseling
* Research Methods in Education
* Statistical Methods in Education

An applicant to the Graduate School at Kansas State University must have a bachelor's degree substantially the same as the ones granted by Kansas State University. That is, it must represent a broad range of courses in the basic academic disciplines. Applicants whose degrees do not meet these standards may be denied admission to graduate degree programs at Kansas State University.Admission is denied to applicants holding bachelor's degrees with a significant amount of credit for work that was not supervised by a faculty member of an accredited college or university or evaluated in units that identify the academic content. A limited amount of credit for experience, when awarded as an acceptable part of a bachelor's degree for internships, fieldwork, or the like, is not a cause for denial but must be clearly identified as graded work.Applicants to graduate degree programs pay a non-refundable application fee of: * $50 for U.S. citizens and permanent residents and * $75 for international applicants English Language Requirements IELTS band: 6.5 TOEFL paper-based test score : 550 TOEFL iBT® test: 79

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✔️ Certificate upon completion

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Most graduate students are able to finance their education with a variety of financial assistance tools specific to graduate school:

* Graduate Assistantships: Funded by individual departments and graduate programs, teaching, research and graduate assistantships are awarded based on a student's ability and promise.
* Graduate Fellowships
* Loans: Loans are available to U.S. citizens or permanent residents who have successfully applied for financial assistance
* Traineeships: Traineeships are offered through the university or departments that have federally supported traineeships.

Accreditation

The College of Education is the largest teacher preparation program of the 23 programs in the state and is accredited by the Kansas State Department of Education and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, or NCATE.