The Online Master of Education in Counseling is largely considered a part-time program and thus requires approximately 15-20 hours of work per week for didactic courses, including time spent with lectures, research, and coursework. As a professional preparation program, the counseling program also requires students to engage in 700 hours of counseling experience in a school or clinical mental health field site placement. The 100-hour counseling practicum and 600-hour counseling internship are completed concurrently with other classes and include students spending 8-10 hours per week during Practicum and 18-20 hours per week during Internship at their field site placements as part of the course requirements. Students should be prepared for a near full-time workload during the two 15-week semesters of the counseling Internship.