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- Credential: Masters Degree
- Credits: 36
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Athabasca University’s Master of Counselling (MC) is a distributed learning, mixed delivery (synchronous and asynchronous; online and virtual seminars) program designed to meet the graduate academic requirements for the career paths of professional counsellor or counselling psychologist. The program incorporates core and specialization courses to ensure that all learners attain competency in the fundamentals of counselling psychology.
- 33
Average age
- 93%
Employment rate
- $65k
Average salary
- 87%
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Program summary
Program overview
Athabasca University’s online Master of Counselling (MC) is designed to meet the graduate academic requirements for professional counsellors or counselling psychologists.
We currently offer a specialization in Counselling Psychology.
Program details
The Master of Counselling is a 36-credit online graduate program. Learners must complete at least 24 credits through Athabasca University.
Because non-thesis learners require a total of 72 psychology credits for registration in Alberta, learners who intend to seek registration as a psychologist in Alberta must have 36 credits in addition to the 36 credits in the Master of Counselling program. For learners without 36 undergraduate credits, options include:- taking additional graduate courses in GCAP;
- taking undergraduate psychology courses from Athabasca University or another institution.
There is only one MC intake each year. The application deadline is February 1 and classes start in September (Fall Term). All courses are paced with defined start and end dates.
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