University of Iowa · Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations

Counseling and Behavioral Health Services (CBHS), BA

Awarded degree: Bachelor of Arts with a major in Counseling and Behavioral Health Services

Counseling (general)

Bachelor'sBACACREP: not listedFirst-year entryTransfer entry

Overview

A 120-semester-hour BA with a 39-semester-hour major in counseling skills, applied counseling, psychology, ethics and career development. The major is non-licensure and offers informal concentration areas in school mental health, addictions and corrections.

Official program name: Counseling and Behavioral Health Services (CBHS), BA
Awarded degree: Bachelor of Arts with a major in Counseling and Behavioral Health Services
Source: catalog.registrar.uiowa.edu · verified October 12, 2026
Degree level: Bachelor's
Counseling specialty: Counseling (general)
Source: catalog.registrar.uiowa.edu · verified October 12, 2026
Professional purpose: Undergraduate preparationA bachelor's degree. It does not by itself qualify anyone for independent clinical practice; professional counselor licensure requires a graduate degree.
Source: education.uiowa.edu · verified October 12, 2026
School: University of Iowa — Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
Source: catalog.registrar.uiowa.edu · verified October 12, 2026
Location: Iowa City, IA
Required credits: minimum of 120 s.h., including at least 39 s.h. for the major
Source: catalog.registrar.uiowa.edu · verified October 12, 2026
Duration: Not verified
Teaching language: English (not separately stated)

How students enter this degree

First-year entry. First-year applicants meet College of Education admission requirementsSource: education.uiowa.edu · verified October 12, 2026
Transfer entry. Transfer applicants meet College of Education transfer admission requirementsSource: education.uiowa.edu · verified October 12, 2026

A bachelor's degree in counseling is undergraduate preparation. It does not by itself qualify anyone for independent clinical practice; professional counselor licensure requires a graduate degree, supervised experience and an examination.

Why this program is listed

Bachelor's degree whose official title names counseling; non-licensure undergraduate major.

Source: catalog.registrar.uiowa.edu · verified October 12, 2026

We list counseling bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees whose official program is counselor preparation in a named specialty, and — separately labelled — counseling psychology. Generic psychology, education, social work and standalone MFT degrees are excluded. Eligibility rules

Format and campus attendance

How coursework is delivered and whether you must come to campus for it. Practicum and internship are a separate requirement, shown in the next section. “Fully online coursework” appears only when the school says no campus attendance is required.

Academic delivery: On campusClasses meet in person on campus.
Source: education.uiowa.edu · verified October 12, 2026
Class schedule: Not verified
Study intensity: Not published

Practicum, internship and placements

Supervised fieldwork in a clinical, community or school setting, as the school publishes it. For online programs this happens in person, usually near where you live — whatever the coursework format.

Practicum and internship requirements: not verified. We publish this only when the institution states it on an official page.

Placement arrangements and supervision

Not published on the pages we checked. Ask who finds the practicum site, whether sites in your area are approved and how supervision works.

How practicum and internship placements work

Curriculum

Other

Informal concentration areas: School Mental Health, Addictions, Corrections
Source: education.uiowa.edu · verified October 12, 2026

Admissions

Required, optional, waived and not-required items are shown exactly as the university states them. Anything not listed is not verified — not “not required”.

Admission requirements: not verified. We publish this only when the institution states it on an official page.

Tests

Entrance and English-language test policy: not verified. We publish this only when the institution states it on an official page.

We do not publish acceptance rates or estimate admission chances.

Start dates and deadlines

Dates are shown with the term the university printed. A past date is marked passed and is never carried into a new cycle.

Application deadlines: not verified. We publish this only when the institution states it on an official page.

Tuition and fees

Each amount keeps its student category, academic year and basis. Per-credit, per-term and whole-program figures are not comparable with each other, and tuition is not the full cost of attendance.

Tuition for this program: not verified. We publish this only when the institution states it on an official page.

Funding

Funding policy and awards exactly as the school publishes them. Competitive scholarships and assistantships are not guaranteed funding; loans must be repaid and are not scholarships. Counseling tuition and scholarships

Funding classification: Funding not verified

We have not verified an official funding policy for this program. That does not mean funding is unavailable.

Scholarships, fellowships or assistantships for this program: not verified. We publish this only when the institution states it on an official page.

Accreditation and enrollment restrictions

Institutional accreditation covers the whole school; programmatic accreditation (CACREP) covers only the specialty and degree it lists. Enrollment restrictions for online students are a separate question.

Institutional accreditation

Higher Learning Commission (HLC) — accreditedSource: ope.ed.gov · verified October 12, 2026

Programmatic accreditation

No CACREP accreditation is matched to this program in the current CACREP directory, and no other programmatic accreditation was verified. Institutional accreditation does not imply programmatic accreditation, and another program at the same school being accredited does not cover this one.

Published enrollment restrictions (state authorization)

None recorded for this program.

International applicants

Not verified for this program.

Licensure and professional disclosures

What the school publishes about professional licensure or certification. Meeting a state's educational requirements is only one part of licensure: examinations, post-degree supervised experience, background checks and a board application follow. This directory does not decide whether you qualify.

A professional licensure disclosure for this program: not verified. We publish this only when the institution states it on an official page.

CACREP accreditation does not guarantee licensure in every state, and school counselor certification is not the same as clinical counselor licensure. LPC, LMHC and other state titles · School counselor credentials

Sources and verification

Every fact on this page comes from the official pages below. Last verified October 12, 2026.

catalog.registrar.uiowa.edu/education/psychological-quantitative-foundations/counseling-behavioral-h — Official catalog / bulletin, verified October 12, 2026
education.uiowa.edu/areas-study/counseling-and-mental-health/counseling-and-behavioral-health-servic — Official program page, verified October 12, 2026
DAPIP — HLC institutional accreditation record (data files downloaded 2026-10-12) — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 12, 2026

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