The Counselor Education Program within the College of Education at the University of New Mexico is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The program recruits and retains students who reflect the broad range of diversity found in New Mexico. Our students acquire knowledge and skills in the eight core competency areas that include: human growth and development, social and cultural foundations of counseling practice, helping relationships, working with groups, career and lifestyle development, assessment, research and program evaluation, and professional issues/identity.

The Ph.D. program is designed so our students can develop the requisite competencies for careers in academic and professional service settings. Ordinarily, students enter the Ph.D. program having already earned a Master's degree in Counseling, having developed their counseling skills, and being license eligible as a psychotherapist. The course work and research requirements of the program prepare graduates to vie for faculty positions in graduate-level counselor education programs and as educators, researchers, supervisors and consultants in government, education, and community agency/school settings. The Ph.D. program is not a psychology program and does not prepare students for licensure as a psychologist.

The doctoral degree in Counselor Education is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The program recruits and retains students who reflect the broad range of diversity found in New Mexico.