Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research

Welcome to the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research (CEPR), where our objective is to prepare advanced professionals to be both sophisticated practitioners and researchers. Students from our graduate degree programs are qualified to be the next generation of counselors, psychologists, program evaluators, professors, and researchers. We provide our students with the skills necessary to fill these and other roles in which knowledge of human development, learning and cognition, and research and evaluation methods are essential.

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Our programs are not only cutting edge and affordable but also nationally ranked! 

Kola's Journey

Follow the path of Dr. Kola Brown, a CEPR student fresh off of a successful dissertation defense in the department's Counselor Education and Supervision (PhD) program. Brown now transitions into a faculty role within CEPR, instructing in the Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling (MS) program. What challenge(s) will she face during this "new chapter of life," and how will she use what she learned in the PhD program to overcome them?