Mental Health Counseling/Human Services (5 year)

This 5-year program leads to a bachelor's degree in human services from the Mount, and a master's degree in mental health counseling from Pace University. Students spend the first three years at the Mount taking courses to fulfill the requirements for a bachelor's degree in the psychology or human services major, while establishing eligibility for admission into the master's degree in mental health counseling program at Pace. Students must reserve 12 credits of open electives in order to take four, 3-credit graduate courses during their fourth year at MSMC. Psychology majors may also use 6 credits for the three electives at the 2000 level or above to satisfy these first-year requirements at Pace. The remaining 48 credits of the master's program are taken at Pace.

For both psychology and human services majors, students must complete all General Education requirements for a bachelor's degree from the Mount. Beyond this, required courses vary within the major.

To be eligible for the program, students must have completed 78 credits, including a one-semester internship. Students must have attained an overall Grade Point Average of 3.0 and a GPA of 3.3 in their major. Students must also have completed PSY 3000 (Principles and Techniques in Counseling) as one of their elective psychology courses. Students meeting these criteria must submit an application to be reviewed at the Mount by the Counseling Advisory Committee. If the CAC recommends acceptance into the Pace mental health counseling program, the Pace graduate counseling admission committee will review the application and make the decision regarding acceptance into the program.