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.
Program Highlights
- 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-year on-campus program for full-time students
Learn more about the program and our faculty.
Department of Leadership and College Student Development
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 fourth year in the most prestigious category of U.S.News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2012 rankings, placing in Tier One at No. 170 in the National Universities category. APU was also ranked No. 16 in the Up-and-Coming Schools Category by U.S.News. In addition, The Princeton Review named APU as 1 of 121 institutions in the 2012 Best Colleges in the West for the sixth consecutive year, and Forbes named APU No. 322 on a list of 650 colleges that represent the top 20 percent of all undergraduate institutions.
