Accelerated Bachelor's / Master's in Mental Health Counseling

You’re fascinated by human behavior and think you want to study psychology as an undergraduate. A major in psychology provides excellent preparation for a wide variety of careers. If you already know you want to help people as a mental health counselor, Suffolk’s accelerated bachelor’smaster’s program can help you begin your masters level coursework faster. A graduate degree is necessary to work directly with patients. In our joint program, you’ll take two graduate-level courses in your senior year, allowing you to complete your combined undergraduategraduate studies in six years, saving tuition and waiving our GRE requirement. Your graduate coursework will build on your undergraduate studies and provide the academic and clinical skills to assess, diagnose, and treat clients with a variety of mental health issues. By starting your graduate degree early, you'll become familiar with the professors and curriculum sooner than most, easing your transition to graduate school.

Applicants of the program are required to:

Have a junior year (first semester) overall (transfer credits included) GPA of 3.5 or higher overall and a GPA of 3.5 or higher in the Psychology major
Complete of a minimum of four psychology undergraduate courses at Suffolk

English language requirements

TOEFL iBT score (minimum required score is a 79).

IELTS score (minimum required score is a 6.5)

PTE- Academic with a minimum score of 54