The Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology is administratively located within the College of Education at State University of West Georgia. In addition to offering graduate work in counseling, the Department offers the supporting course work and expertise in Educational Psychology for the various departments within the School.
Most course work is offered in the late afternoon and evening with the exception of summer semester.
Graduates are eligible for these credentials after successfully passing the appropriate exams and completing required post degree supervised counseling experiences. The faculty subscribes to the Code of Ethics of the American Counseling Association. Over 2,000 graduate students have completed their degrees since l969. Currently, there are several hundred graduate students pursuing work within the department. The department has been selected as only one of six universities in the United States to take a leadership role in transforming school counseling.