This study aimed to investigate the counseling needs of students in private universities. The sample of the study, which consisted of 410 male and female students, was randomly chosen from all private universities in the Sultanate of Oman. To achieve the main aim of the study, a 35-item questionnaire was used to identify students\' academic, social, psychological, and professional needs. Reliability and validity of the instrument were checked using proper procedures. The findings of the study revealed the following: - Students\' counseling needs were high. Academic needs ranked first, then psychological, professional, and, finally, social. - No significant differences in students\' responses to counseling needs were due to their gender, and academic grade in all of the questionnaire domains. Moreover, no significant differences in the participants\' responses in the domains of the academic, social, and professional needs were due to university variable. It was also found that no significant differences in their responses in the domains of the academic, psychological, and professional needs were due to academic year variable. - There were significant differences in the participants\' responses in the domain of psychological needs due to university variable. The assessment of the psychological needs of Thufar University students was more than that of their peers in the Nazwah and Suhar University. In addition, it was found that there were significant differences in the students\' responses in the domain of psychological needs due to academic year variable. This shows that the assessment of social needs of the second year students was higher than that of their peers in the third year. In the light of these findings, a set of relevant recommendations were introduced