Counseling | All Degrees

Counselors held about 635,000 jobs in 2006 and the Bureau of Labor estimates that it will grow by 21 percent between 2006 and 2016, especially in counseling specialties dealing with substance abuse and addictions.

Counselors can work for a treatment center, a hospital, or in private practice and as many as 47 percent of all counselors work for the government. In many locations counseling programs prepare students to enter the field and start a successful career.

Students looking for a service-oriented career where they get to work in an office in the health care industry will probably love a counseling program.

People with All Degrees in counseling enter the industry in a wide variety of specialties including educational counselors, vocational counselors, rehab counselors, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and more.

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