Program Information

Our distance learning graduate program offers a Masters of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling and is administered through the Consortium for Distance Education in Rehabilitation (CDER). The consortium is comprised of three universities: San Diego State University, Georgia State University, and the University of North Texas.

CDER began as a federally funded grant program by the Rehabilitation Services Administration in 1999. The following year, CDER enrolled 35 students. Since that time, our enrollment has expanded to over 100 students at UNT with another 100 at SDSU. To date, UNT has graduated 162 students. Convenient and portable, distance learning makes use of a wide range of technologies to promote an interactive, rigorous learning environment in which the student is an active participant in a "virtual" classroom. To make it easier for students to orient to a distance learning environment, we have developed a CDER Graduate Student Handbook (PDF). The handbook contains information on the structure of the program, the cohort system, equipment requirements, application and admissions procedures, and much, much more.