If you have any questions please contact the Office of Admissions at 303-546-3572 (1-800-772-6951) or at admissions@naropa.edu.
Apply to one of Naropa University's graduate programs in one of the following ways:
Application documents should be sent to:
Naropa University
Office of Admissions
2130 Arapahoe Ave
Boulder, CO 80302
If your current financial situation warrants waiving of your application fee, submit a fee waiver request.
If you completed any coursework at a foreign college or university (other than a study abroad program), an international education evaluation is required.
Please refer to the following when writing your essay:
All of Naropa University's counseling programs offer skills training and counseling career preparation, diversity work, contemplative practice, community engagement, and deep personal reflection. Given this and your understanding of the assigned readings for this application please respond to the following prompt:
Naropa invites students to transform themselves and transform the world. What is one thing you would like to transform about yourself while training to be a counselor/ dance/ movement therapist? What is one thing you would like to transform in the world and how would a degree in Somatic Counseling from Naropa enable you to do this?
Through supplemental essays we hope to uncover your level of exposure to and experience with different forms of movement, sensory awareness, and body-based expression from your essays. Please limit your answers to a total of 500 words for each section.
List and describe your training. The following is required:
How is your particular background in the dance forms you studied relevant to the roots and practice of Dance/Movement Therapy as you understand it from the assigned reading for this application?
A minimum of 100 hours of either paid or volunteer fieldwork experience is required. Fieldwork can be in a supervised setting in the mental health field or through work in a community facility or service organization.
Please include both supplemental essays in one document with headings indicating the start of each essay.
Your resume/CV should detail all pertinent academic, employment, and volunteer history with exact dates of participation.
Submit copies of your official transcript(s), statement of interest, supplemental essays, and resume/CV.
Two letters of recommendation are required.
Recommendations must be from pertinent academic or professional sources, and may not be from family members, spouses, friends, or current or former therapists or spiritual advisors.
Due to the number of applications received each year, it may not be possible to schedule an interview for every candidate. The Office of Admissions will assess a candidate’s completed application to determine if the candidate will move forward in the process and be invited to an interview. On-campus interviews are a required part of the admissions process.
The 2020 interview dates are: TBA
The following psychology courses from an accredited academic institution:
All courses are subject to approval and may require additional documentation such
as a syllabus or course description.
A grade of "C" or above is required for all prerequisite coursework. All prerequisites
are to be completed at accredited academic institutions for credit (not pass/fail
or audited). Applicants must submit an official transcript showing proof of completion
of the prerequisite coursework and bachelor's degree by June 30, 2020. To ensure that
transcripts of coursework arrive to the Office of Admissions by June 30, 2020, we
strongly recommend that all coursework is completed no later than June 1, 2020.
We encourage you to be actively engaged in the admission process. You can check your application status online at MyNaropa. Once your application form has been processed by the Office of Admissions you will receive login information via email.
Domestic applicants: learn more about how to apply for financial aid.
International applicants: learn more about how to apply for financial aid.
In addition to the graduate admissions requirements, international applicants must also complete the following international applicant admissions requirements:
International applicants must document their English language proficiency by submitting scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) tests. Applicants must earn the following required scores:
Exceptions are granted for applicants from countries where English is one of the official national languages.
Applicants (including U.S. citizens and permanent residents educated outside of the U.S.) must have all non-U.S. records of secondary and/or post-secondary education evaluated by a professional international education evaluation service. In this case, all non-U.S transcripts should be sent to one of the below evaluation service providers, not to Naropa University. Once the evaluation is completed, the applicant should request that the report be sent directly to: Naropa University, Office of Admissions (2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302).
Naropa works with the three following credential evaluation services. Evaluations will not be accepted by other services.
All undergraduate and graduate applicants must submit a complete course-by-course evaluation.
Please note: international applicants who have completed their undergraduate degree
at an accredited U.S. institution do not need to provide an evaluated transcript.
If accepted to Naropa University, international students are required to submit the
following:
