Overview
The graduate program in College Counseling and Student Development at Azusa Pacific University prepares individuals to become student affairs educators whose special interest is college students and the environments that affect their development as persons and as scholar-students.
Benefits and Distinctives
- Develop visionary leadership and foster student learning.
- Facilitate effective campus and community relationships.
- Develop multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills.
- Apply classroom learning to supervised fieldwork in a college or university.
- Two program options:
- Two-year on-campus program for full-time students
- Three-year distributed learning program for working higher education professionals.
Learn more about the program and our faculty.
Department of College Student Development/Organizational Leadership Accreditation
Azusa Pacific University receives accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). In addition, APU's College Counseling and Student Development Program also meets Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) standards.
University Reputation
Azusa Pacific University held its place for the second year in the most prestigious category of the U.S.News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2009, ranking in the third tier of the national category. Additionally, for the first time, APU ranked ninth among the best up-and-coming national universities. Previously, APU was ranked in the top 25 schools within the Western Universities-Master’s category, enjoying prominent placement and recognition for outstanding first-year and service-learning programs.
According to Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine, APU ranked number 6 in the nation in awarding the most master’s degrees to Hispanics. In addition, The Princeton Review included APU as 1 of 120 colleges in the 2009 Best in the West category.
