The Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Program at the University of Alabama provides graduate students with high quality training in the theory, skills, and professional identity essential to competent practice in the field of marriage and family therapy. Students graduate equipped to treat a wide variety of individual, couple, and family mental health issues with diverse populations. The UA MFT Program meets licensure requirements for the State of Alabama.Marriage and Family Therapy is a mental health profession that focuses on systemic thought in training practitioners in a variety of theories in order to customize help for individual, couple, and family concerns.Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) provides graduate students with high quality training in the theory, skills, and professional identity essential to competent practice in the field of marriage and family therapy. Students graduate equipped to treat a wide variety of individual, couple, and family mental health issues with diverse populations.
Study options
Full Time
(2 Years)
Tuition fees
US$35,924.00
per year
international student fee - $100 per semester
Start date
January 2027
Venue
Tuscaloosa Campus
Tuscaloosa,
Tuscaloosa,
Alabama,
35487, South, United States
Entry requirements
For international students
Each international applicant must hold the equivalent of a U.S. four-year bachelors degree from an accredited institution to be eligible for graduate admission. While individual departments may have more stringent requirements, bachelor degrees from Bologna Accord certified institutions are considered to meet this criterion. We do also consider Indian three-year degrees to be equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree.TOEFL : The minimum score for admission to a degree program or for non-degree admission is 79 on the internet-based TOEFL (iBT).International English Language Testing System (IELTS): The minimum score for admission to a degree program or for non-degree admission is 6.5.TOEFL paper-based score of 550 and above
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.