2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Clinical/Medical Social Work is the 261st most popular major in the country with 2,534 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 287 clinical/medical social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 117 clinical/medical social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in clinical/medical social work. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their clinical/medical social work program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree clinical/medical social work students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Social Work in the Southwest Region

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New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico Highlands University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Southwest Region list. New Mexico Highlands University is a small public school situated in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It awarded 81 bachelors’s clinical/medical social work degrees in 2020-2021.

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Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus
Portales, New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Portales, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s clinical/medical social work degrees to 36 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Clinical/Medical Social Work at Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Social Work

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.