The requirement for being a counselor in a university is academic qualifications, and the minimum requirement is a master's degree.

The general selection criteria for counselors are:

1, strong politics, strong professionalism, strict discipline, positive style, flexible innovative thinking and serious work.

2. Have a bachelor degree or above, have both ability and political integrity, be willing to contribute, be committed to teaching and educating people, and love the ideological and political education of college students.

3. Have relevant professional background, strong organizational management ability and language expression ability, and have received systematic on-the-job training and obtained a certificate of qualification.

4. The general requirement is party member, majoring in psychology and education, especially ideological and political education.

5. Freshmen are required to be the main student cadres (monitor, secretary of the Youth League branch, college and university student union ministers and above) during their school days, and issue certificates with official seals. Counselors mainly do student work, so they must have experience.

The main responsibilities of the counselor:

1. Help college students to develop good moral quality, conduct heart-to-heart talks regularly, guide students to develop good psychological quality and excellent character of self-esteem, self-love, self-discipline and self-improvement, enhance students' ability to overcome difficulties, stand the test and bear setbacks, and help students deal with specific problems in study, job selection, making friends and healthy life in a targeted manner, so as to improve their ideological understanding and spiritual realm.

2, understand and master the ideological and political situation of college students, in view of the hot and focus issues that students care about, timely education and guidance, resolve conflicts, participate in handling emergencies, and maintain campus security and stability.

3, the implementation of financial assistance for students from poor families, organize college students to work and study, and actively help students from poor families to complete their studies.

4. Actively carry out employment guidance and services, provide students with efficient and high-quality employment guidance and information services, and help students establish a correct concept of employment.

5. Based on the class and taking the students as the main body, give full play to the organizational strength of the student class collective in the ideological and political education of college students.