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Graduate Fellowships in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Graduate fellowships for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program are highly competitive positions that build and enhance your professional skills and defray tuition costs.

Fellowship Types

The School of Education and Social Policy offers a wide range of internal (on-campus) graduate fellowship opportunities of the following types:

Presidential Fellowships provide 100% of your graduate tuition and include a 9-month, unpaid fellowship placement of 25 hours per week.
Provost Fellowships provide 50% of your graduate tuition and include a 9-month, unpaid fellowship placement of 15 hours per week.

Note that, because of the 700 hours of internship work integrated into the CMHC curriculum, fellowships are not available for the second year of the program. The fellowship award applies to one year (up to 36 credits) only. All CMHC graduate fellows will be automatically eligible for merit scholarship in the second year.

Fellowship Opportunities

2025-2026 M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling fellowship positions will be released December 2024.

Clinical Mental Health Counseling Fellowship Process

HOW TO APPLY

Click the “Apply Now” button below or go to gps.merrimack.edu/apply to begin or resume your graduate application.
Within your app, select “Yes” for “Are you applying to a fellowship?”
Submit your application. Be sure to complete the required Fellowship essay.
Receive your admission decision. If admitted to the master’s program, you’ll receive further instructions about the fellowship process.

Important Information for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Fellowship Program

We are accepting applications on a rolling basis!

Priority Fellowship Application Deadline: February 1, 2025
Fellowship Interviews: Early March 2025
Match Decisions: Late March 2025
First Day of Fellowship Training: August 2025
Duration of Fellowship Placement: August 2025 to late May 2026

We strongly encourage you to apply as soon as possible for your best chance at a preferred placement. Applications will be accepted until all fellowship positions have been filled.

The process is as follows:

Submit your online application. Be sure to indicate your fellowship interest within your application.
Submit your initial ranking form. Students who are accepted for admission and invited to interview for a fellowship will be eligible to review and rank their preferred positions. If you are invited, your invitation will include a deadline for submitting your selections. Please note: we do not guarantee that you will be invited to interview for your top selections.
Complete your site interviews. First round of interviews will take place.
Submit your post-interview rankings. After the interviews, both students and sites must complete and submit their post-interview ranking forms, ranking their preferences for final placement.
Receive your match notification. Match letters will be sent to all students and supervisors.

Please note:

Participation in the fellowship placement process does not guarantee a fellowship. Sites will independently decide which candidates to invite for interviews. Please note that interviews are not guaranteed with your selected sites.
Deposits are due ten days after matches are sent to students.
As a two year program, the fellowship scholarship is only awarded and applied for the first year of the program. During your first year, you will not be eligible for any other discounts or scholarships. Graduate fellows will be automatically eligible for 50% of their original Dean scholarship in the second year of the program.
If you are admitted into the traditional program but not offered a fellowship, you will automatically be considered for a Dean scholarship.
If you are originally awarded a scholarship and then are given a fellowship placement, you will no longer receive the merit scholarship. The fellowship will replace any other discounts.

Questions? All interested students should email Liana Caffrey in Graduate Admissions for further information.

Dean and Alumni Scholarships

Dean and Alumni Scholarships are available to students who are not receiving a fellowship. No additional application is needed.

FELLOWSHIPS

Graduate Fellowships in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Fellowship Types

Fellowship Opportunities

Clinical Mental Health Counseling Fellowship Process

HOW TO APPLY

Important Information for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Fellowship Program

Dean and Alumni Scholarships

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