The College Student Counseling Major at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

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College Student Counseling & Personnel Services at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

If you plan to study college student counseling & personnel services, take a look at what Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Ship is located in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania and approximately 6,130 students attend the school each year.

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

Ship College Student Counseling & Personnel Services Degrees Available

Master’s Degree in College Student Counseling

Ship College Student Counseling & Personnel Services Rankings

College Student Counseling Student Demographics at Ship

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the college student counseling majors at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

Ship College Student Counseling & Personnel Services Master’s Program

60% Women

47% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of college student counseling master's degrees went to men and 60% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 27% men graduate in college student counseling each year. Ship does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 13% more men than average.

Of the students who received a college student counseling master's degree from Ship, 53% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the college student counseling master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 47% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania with a master's in college student counseling.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Counselor Education/School Counseling & Guidance Services

Careers That College Student Counseling Grads May Go Into

A degree in college 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 PA, the home state for Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors	8,020	$61,260

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
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