{"id":70695,"date":"2016-07-06T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T20:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=70695"},"modified":"2016-07-06T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T20:04:04","slug":"counseling-masters-program-ranked-top-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/07\/counseling-masters-program-ranked-top-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Counseling master&#8217;s program ranked top value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new ranking from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcounselingschools.org\">www.topcounselingschools.org<\/a>\u00a0placed Delta State&#8217;s master&#8217;s counseling program as the top value in Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ranking was created\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">using the online directory of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling &amp; Related Educational Programs to find the accredited counseling programs across the state.\u00a0TCS ranked the schools based on their program completion rate, job placement rate, licensing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">exam pass rate, accreditation length, research productivity,\u00a0and tuition and fees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to TCS, Delta State was worthy of the top spot based on the university&#8217;s unbeatable tuition rates.\u00a0Additionally, superior student performance was highlighted, with the most recent round of data showing DSU students passing the national licensing exam and landing jobs with 100\u00a0percent\u00a0success rates.<\/p>\n<p>Small class sizes and a friendly environment have led some industry professionals to label the program \u201ca little jewel among counseling education programs,\u201d the ranking stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Also mentioned was the annual F.E. Woodall Spring Conference for Helping Professions, which offers experiential workshops, information sessions and networking opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Top Counseling Schools\u2019\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">purpose is to contribute to the academic mission of higher learning institutions by providing pertinent and objective information that counseling students and professionals find relevant to the field of counseling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">See the full list at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcounselingschools.org\/masters\/in\/mississippi\">http:\/\/www.topcounselingschools.org\/masters\/in\/mississippi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ranking from www.topcounselingschools.org\u00a0placed Delta State&#8217;s master&#8217;s counseling program as the top value in Mississippi. The ranking was created\u00a0using the online directory of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":70696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,296],"tags":[969,264,1476],"class_list":["post-70695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-college-of-education-and-human-sciences","category-facultystaff","tag-academics-2","tag-counseling","tag-ranking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70695"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70703,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70695\/revisions\/70703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}