{"id":10786,"date":"2026-02-10T11:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/coepd\/?page_id=10758"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:24:07","slug":"admissions-criteria-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/admissions-criteria-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Admissions Criteria &amp; Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\">\n<h2 class=\"elementToProof\">MA, Counseling<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\n<p style=\"\">You can find the complete admissions criteria for the MA, Counseling program here: <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.marshall.edu\/graduate\/programs-az\/education-professional-development\/counseling-ma\/\">MA, Counseling Graduate Catalog<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"\">If applying for the MA, Counseling degree program, then here are the instructions to complete your writing sample and personal statement:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/files\/2026\/05\/MA-Counseling-Application-Materials-Writing-Sample-and-Video-Personal-Statement-5.1.2026.docx\">MA, Counseling Personal Statement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/files\/2026\/05\/Counseling-Recommendation-Form-11.8.2023.pdf\">Recommender Form<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-admissions\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"button button--secondary \">\n\t\t<span>Graduate Admissions<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\t\n<h2 style=\"\">Professional Development<\/h2>\n<p style=\"\">If applying for professional development admission, then here are the instructions to complete your personal statement:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/files\/2026\/05\/Profesional-Development-Personal-Statement-5.3.26.docx\">Professional Development Personal Statement<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduate-admissions\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"button button--secondary \">\n\t\t<span>Graduate Admissions<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MA, Counseling You can find the complete admissions criteria for the MA, Counseling program here: MA, Counseling Graduate Catalog If applying for the MA, Counseling degree program, then here are the instructions to complete your writing sample and personal statement:\u00a0MA, Counseling Personal Statement Recommender Form Professional Development If applying for professional development admission, then here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":11070,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10786","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10786"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11099,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10786\/revisions\/11099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/counseling-department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}