CACREP认可的博士学位。密西西比州立大学的咨询和学校咨询课程以学生在咨询或咨询相关领域中获得的知识，技能和工作经验为基础，并使其成为高素质的从业人员，教师研究人员和学者，管理人员，该行业的领导者，以及优秀的老师和临床督导员。每个计划的设计和培训理念均基于科学家-从业者模型，并强调批判性思维技能，理论与实践的结合，体验式学习，学术研究，倡导和社会正义意识与活动以及职业认同和领导角色。这些课程是高级课程重点突出的发展顺序，包括咨询核心，辅修或重点领域，选修课程，实践和实习，广泛的研究和统计学，通过笔试和口
The doctoral program in counseling at Mississippi State University builds upon the knowledge, skills, and work experiences students have acquired in counseling or counseling related fields and prepares them to become highly competent practitioners, faculty researchers and scholars, administrators, leaders in the profession, and excellent teachers and clinical supervisors. The program's design and training philosophy is based on the scientist-practitioner model and emphasizes critical thinking skills, the integration of theory with practice, experiential learning, scholarly research, advocacy and social justice awareness and activities, and professional identity and leadership roles.<br>The program is a focused, developmental sequence of advanced coursework which include a counseling core, a minor or focus area, elective courses, practicum and internship, extensive research and statistics, passing written and oral doctoral comprehensive exams, and successfully planning and defending the dissertation. Counseling core coursework includes advanced studies emphasizing theory, clinical supervision, multicultural competencies, assessment and appraisal, teaching, advocacy, social justice, and leadership, ethics, consultation, research skills development, and critical thinking. Doctoral students also complete a minor or focus area from any academic department in the university offering graduate coursework with a prefix different from the COE program emphasis. This gives doctoral students the opportunity to benefit from a broad array of theory, practice, and research in fields related to counseling. Doctoral students must also complete 900 hours of practicum and internship experiences in a setting appropriate to their program concentration area.