For your application to be considered complete, you must submit the online application as well as all supplemental documents.
Who Should Pursue This Program?
This certificate is suited for you if you would like to work with students experiencing personal, family, or peer difficulties and you plan to apply for the New Jersey SAC CEAS (which will be supplied by the NJ Department of Education). Program applicants must meet the admission requirements of TCNJ’s Department of Counselor Education.
Careers
Graduates of this program play a specialized counseling role in elementary and/or secondary school settings.
Engaged Faculty
Learn from nationally and internationally recognized faculty who are fully engaged with their students. Your professor knows your name and teaches all of your classes. You won’t find any TAs here.
Extensive Network
Study alongside peers with solid counseling experience, learn from faculty who have valuable contacts in their field, and benefit from an alumni community with strong professional connections.
We consider applications on a space-available basis. You can apply up to and including the first day of the semester.
The Department of Counselor Education provides program details, including curriculum requirements.
We offer the same tuition rates no matter where you live. And there are a range of financial aid and assistantship options for TCNJ graduate students.

CACREP accredits master’s and doctoral degree programs in counseling and its specialties offered by colleges and universities in the United States and throughout the world.