Master of Education (Guidance and Counselling)
PostgraduateUSQ-EGC-MAS2025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
Add advanced counselling to your teacher’s toolkit
Expand your skillset and get ready for counsellor and guidance officer roles within the education system. Help children and young people work through their problems. Build skills to communicate and collaborate. Deliver guidance that makes a difference.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- Approx. 1.5 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 12
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Master of Education (Guidance and Counselling)
About this degree
On successful completion of the program, graduates should be able to:
- Synthesise and apply advanced theoretical and technical knowledge to contemporary and emerging educational issues, ideas, policies, and debates with regard to professional practice.
- Analyse and evaluate complex educational contexts to critically reflect on cultural norms and practices in educational settings nationally and globally.
- Communicate effectively in academic, professional, and community contexts through multiple modes.
- Communicate ways of working respectfully and collaboratively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities, and culturally and linguistically diverse peoples and communities.
- Develop creative and effective ways to implement contextually relevant educational innovation.
- Design and conduct ethical research responsive to educational theories, practices, and contexts.
- UniSQ's Master of Education (Guidance and Counselling) is ideal for teachers wishing to extend their career as a guidance officer, guidance counsellor or school counsellor. You will have the opportunity to study in the areas of advanced counselling in educational contexts, emotional and behavioural problems of children and young people, child wellbeing and protection, and assessment and testing. Expand your understanding of the transformative role of education in society, and develop the skills to work through the contemporary challenges faced by educators in rapidly changing, diverse communities.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
EDU8326 Learning Difficulties: Mathematics
EDU8509 Positive Behaviour Support within School Contexts
EDU8707 Wellbeing in Educational Contexts
EDU8324 Learning Difficulties: Reading
EDU8706 Differentiation
EDR8801 Foundations of Research in Education
EDU5324 Trauma, Behaviour and Learning
ADU8338 Autism
EDR8802 Foundation Methods for Research in Education
Year 2
EDR8061 Master of Education Project (2-unit)
EDU5321 Educating Students with Special Needs
Award requirements
Completion of 12 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Graduate Diploma of Education, Graduate Certificate of Education.
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Indicative first year fee
$4,445
Indicative total fee $6,667
The amounts shown here are indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
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As Australia’s #1 university for graduate starting salary (Good Universities Guide, 2022), University of Southern Queensland is the right place to make real progress. Regardless of your education history, your age or your aspirations, at UniSQ you’ll be inspired by quality learning experiences matched with top resources and research. Having delivered distance and online learning for over 40+ years, UniSQ supports you to learn at your own pace—exactly how it suits you.
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- 24
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 24
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Entry requirements
- Approved bachelor degree, or equivalent, in Education. Candidates with a bachelor degree, or equivalent, in a non-related discipline may be eligible for entry into UniSQ's Graduate Certificate of Education. Upon completion and achievement of a minimum GPA of 4.0, they may apply for entry into the Master of Education. Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
Professional recognition
The Master of Education (Guidance and Counselling) is an appropriate qualification for entry-level membership of the Queensland Guidance and Counselling Association (QGCA).Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Education Advisers and Reviewers | $93K to $120K | Up 19.2% |
School Principals | N/A^ | Up 19% |
^ There is no data available