The main focus area for this major is Social Work. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Social Work is a major offered under the public administration and social service program of study at Kean University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the master’s degree program in social work, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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Out-of-state part-time graduates at Kean paid an average of $919 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $765 per credit hour. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for graduate student.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $15,752 | $20,714 |
Fees | $1,604 | $1,604 |
The median early career salary of social work students who receive their master’s degree from Kean is $42,682 per year. That is about the same as the national average of $43,464.
Kean does not offer an online option for its social work master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Kean Online Learning page.
About 81.1% of the students who received their MSW in social work in 2019-2020 were women. This is less than the nationwide number of 87.2%.
Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in social work at Kean in 2019-2020, 68.9% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 42%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 34 |
Hispanic or Latino | 15 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 21 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 3 |
Social Work students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Social Work | 74 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to social work.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Public Administration | 34 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.