What kind of degree is helpful if you want to be an academic advisor at a college/university?

Question

I have a bachelor degree in psychology, and wonder what graduate degree I should seek to become an academic advisor

Answer 1

Most (but not all!) of the answerers above have misunderstood your question.

Here's the information you're looking for.

In order to launch a career working in college student advising offices, you must

1) have a bachelor's degree. The major does not really matter.

2) earn a Master's degree (usually an M.Ed., but sometimes an M.A.) in College Student Personnel Administration. Dozens of universities offer these degrees, usually through their School of Education.

It's not always easy to be admitted into these Master's programs.
To be a strong candidate for admission, one should have previous experience in some area of student leadership or student services.

Examples: having been a member of student government as an undergraduate, having been a resident assistant in a residence hall, having been a student worker in a university office which provided contact with college students, having experience as a residence hall director, etc.

Best wishes to you! This can be a very demanding, but rewarding career.

Answer 2

I'm not sure I understand. An academic advisor is a faculty member at a university who is assigned to students in order to help them in their academic choices. You don't need a specific degree for that, since it is assumed that, for example, if you have a PhD in history, you can advise history students, and so forth.
A career counselor is a different matter. For that, you should focus in psychology, and probably do graduate work in counselling. If you want to be come a counsellor like those that work in highschools, it would be best if you combine something in education with psychology.

Answer 3

Why don't you talk to your academic advisor from college and ask them what degree(s) they hold. I don't think you need a graduate degree to learn policies at a university and help students choose classes.

Answer 4

Probably a Masters in Education. A lot of programs include a counseling program in that degree.

Answer 5

i ought to judge getting a bacholors in heritage or political technological awareness, AND a masters in regulation. this manner you may have the historic and political information of our usa, besides as information about the guidelines. this may help you climb the political ladder.

Answer 6

You'll need a Ph.D and you're going to need proof that you're very politically astitute, and you're going to have to publish something that nobody else has on the subject.

Then, you're gonna have to wait for the person who has the job you want to die. Since they're almost imortal, I dobut you'll get the job but good luck