Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Oregon State University
Public · College / university
A graduate counseling pathway with practicum and internship experience.
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What this route covers
A 90-credit hybrid, part-time master's route after a bachelor's degree. The program prepares for professional counseling; supervised practice and licensing requirements are separate from graduation.
Before you apply
Review the Clinical Mental Health Counseling course map and have an advisor evaluate prior credits and placement before registering.
Your complete timeline
About 3 years after a bachelor’s degree · 90 credits. Allow separately for prerequisite preparation, selection and the clinical start date.
Plan around the schedule
Hybrid with in-person sessions and placements. Ask for the actual days, start times and required travel from Corvallis with online coursework. Online coursework does not necessarily make laboratories or placements remote.
Application and selection
Use the official Clinical Mental Health Counseling page to review the current entry checklist. Ask whether a separate department application, selection process or cohort start applies before committing to enrollment.
Details checked September 15, 2026. Confirm current requirements with the provider.
Questions to take to an advisor
Which undergraduate preparation, cohort schedule and supervised practice requirements apply before licensure?
- Which required courses or placements are offered only once per year?
- Can you give me a written estimate covering every required term and practical expense?
- Which employment, transfer or licensing requirements remain after this award?
Published program length is not a personal completion estimate. Transfer credits, prerequisites, selection and course availability can change the timeline.
After the program
The state data group combines several counseling occupations. The linked master’s program is a clinical mental health route after a bachelor’s degree. Addiction counseling can use different credential pathways. Confirm requirements for the exact role; graduate study alone does not complete every licensure step.
Cost and outcomes
Published costs; confirm your current enrollment quote
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Published tuition or budget base
The 2026-27 Ecampus Clinical Mental Health Counseling rate is $643 per credit, including the $15 distance-education fee. At 90 credits, unchanged tuition would calculate to $57,870; this is not a guaranteed program quote. Later-year increases, other fees, in-person travel, clinical expenses and living costs are additional.
Official tuition or program-cost table ↗ · Checked September 16, 2026
A tuition rate or annual allowance is not a complete program price. Confirm your residency, course load, program fees and financial aid before comparing costs.
Open the cost planner →No verified exact-program earnings figure.
OSU reports the Counseling master’s major in the counselor-education field, with clinical-mental-health and school-counseling options. The field result does not separate the current clinical option, campus or delivery format. No exact-program earnings are separately verified here.
Historical related-field earnings
$65,878 median annual earnings 4 years after completion, in 2024 dollars.
Oregon State University · Student Counseling and Personnel Services (CIP 13.11) · Master's Degree. Cohort: 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic-year completers; earnings measured in 2022 and 2023.
College Scorecard covers federally aided completers who were working and not enrolled. This related field can combine programs and institutional branches; it is not an exact-program, campus-specific or current starting-pay figure. It is not directly comparable with Census outcomes because the population and dollar year differ.
U.S. Department of Education field-of-study data (ZIP) ↗
Data dictionary and cohort dates (Excel) ↗ · Checked September 16, 2026