Gain a Competitive Edge in Your Career
Whatever your career aspirations, whether you want to teach, work in a community or a nonprofit setting, further your own professional practice or conduct research, Walden University’s Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision can help you advance your career and develop the skill set you need to become an effective leader in the profession.
- Employment opportunities are predicted to grow for counselors in the field of education through 2016.*
- Within specialized areas of counseling, employment opportunities are expected to increase between 13 and 34%.*
Reach Your Potential
Earning a doctoral degree in this profession is important now more than ever with national standards that require new faculty members of Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)-accredited programs to hold doctoral degrees in counselor education and supervision by 2013. With your Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Walden, you can be prepared for a successful career in teaching, administration, or research.
Expand Your Career Options
Choose from a range of careers in hospitals and clinics, government, higher education, community service, and other nonprofit settings. Pursue a career as a researcher, a clinical supervisor, director of guidance or pupil personnel programs, or as a faculty member in counselor education, mental health counseling, rehabilitation counseling, and school counseling.
*Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008–09 Edition, on the Internet at www.bls.gov/oco/ocos067.htm (viewed online September 24, 2009).
