Student Counseling at California State University - Sacramento

If you plan to study student counseling, take a look at what California State University - Sacramento has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Sac State is located in Sacramento, California and approximately 32,293 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Student Counseling section at the bottom of this page.

Sac State Student Counseling Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Student Counseling

Sac State Student Counseling Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Student Counseling Student Demographics at Sac State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the student counseling majors at California State University - Sacramento.

Sac State Student Counseling Master’s Program

The student counseling program at Sac State awarded 140 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 22% of these degrees went to men with the other 78% going to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 17% men graduate in student counseling each year. Sac State does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 5% more men than average.

In the student counseling master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 64% of degree recipients. That is 26% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Sacramento with a master's in student counseling.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	20
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	56
White	38
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

Related Majors

• Teacher Education Subject Specific
• Educational Administration
• General Education
• Teacher Education Grade Specific

Careers That Student Counseling Grads May Go Into

A degree in student counseling can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for California State University - Sacramento.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors	32,400	$74,530

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Stickpen under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.