grad school

10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Counseling Master’s Program

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the author’s Substack Diogenes In Exile on September 02, 2024. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. When I started classes for a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the University of Tennessee in August of 2022, I was excited to […]

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For Crippling Debt, Why Not Try Grad School?

There’s something even worse than undergraduate debt. It’s graduate-school debt. According to the American Student Assistance website, which uses figures from such sources as the National Center for Education Statistics, the College Board, and the nonprofit Finaid.org, 60 percent of recipients of bachelor’s’ degrees borrowed to fund their education during the 2000s, with the average […]

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