Counseling and Human Development Services

College Student Affairs Administration MEd

Program Overview

The CSAA Program is one of three master’s degree programs in the Department of Counseling and Human Development Services of the College of Education. Other programs include School Counseling and Community Counseling. The CSAA program is designed to meet the Standards of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) and the requirements of the University of Georgia Graduate School and College of Education. Learning is encouraged through traditional academic study and research, and experiential activities such as field-work, practica, and internships.

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CSAA and Counseling Psychology students hard at work
in the department's technology classroom.

Unique Features of the CSAA Program

The program has four full-time faculty members who devote all of their time to instruction in College Student Affairs Administration and Student Affairs Administration (doctoral program). In addition, there are eight adjunct faculty members who have appointments as senior administrators in Student Affairs and who are actively involved in the program.

Enrollment is limited to assure that there is approximately a 1:12 ratio of full-time faculty to students. Ample opportunity is provided for one-to-one student-faculty interaction.

Faculty and students are committed to enhancing each other’s learning. All students are expected to be active participants in the learning community and to provide support to each other.

There are over 30 different practicum and internship sites available to students on The University of Georgia campus or at neighboring universities.

Students who so desire may take summer internships in student affairs at colleges and universities across the country.

The program is firmly committed to a thorough theoretical grounding in theories of college student development combined with ample opportunity to apply what is learned in the classroom.

Most students have graduate assistantships in student affairs that provide them with financial support and valuable practical experience.

Students are given instruction and supervised practice in working with individual students who need assistance, student organizations, and administrative structures.

Students start the program as a cohort and take classes together during the first year of the program, enabling students to experience group methods and processes in practice as they are learning about them in the classroom.