学校辅导计划已获得理事会辅导和相关教育计划认可委员会（CACREP）的认可。该计划基于学校顾问作为人类发展促进者和专业计划经理的概念框架。该模型将专业学校辅导员设想为计划经理，他具有评估，发展，改善，管理和评估全面且基于学生能力发展的辅导计划的技能。全面计划的重点是发展性（为所有学生提供促进发展的活动），预防性（活动的重点是确定有很大风险获得发展和清除障碍的学生的身份）和补救性（活动，以帮助那些正面临阻碍他们发展的问题的学生。克利夫兰州立大学的学校辅导计划是一个48个学时的集中精力，获得教育学硕士学位。<
The school counseling program is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The program is based on the conceptual framework of the School Counselor as a Facilitator of Human Development and Professional Program Manager. This model envisions the professional school counselor as a program manager who has the skills to assess, develop, improve, manage, and evaluate a counseling program that is comprehensive and based on the development of student competencies. The foci of the comprehensive program are developmental (activities provided for all students to foster their development), preventive (activities centered on the identification of students who are highly at risk of acquiring blocks to their development and removal of those blocks), and remedial (activities to help students who are struggling with problems that are impeding their development). The school counseling program at Cleveland State University is a forty-eight-semester-hour concentration leading to a Master of Education degree.<br>Forty-eight credit hours leading to a degree.