2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Social Work in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 2,534 people earned their degree in clinical/medical social work, making the major the 261st most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 547 clinical/medical social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 386 clinical/medical social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Social Work in the Plains States Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Vermillion, South Dakota, this medium-sized public school awarded 58 degrees to qualified masters’s clinical/medical social work students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Clinical/Medical Social Work at USD
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Winona State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Winona, Minnesota, this medium-sized public school handed out 38 degrees to qualified masters’s clinical/medical social work students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Clinical/Medical Social Work at Winona State University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Capella University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large private for-profit school handed out 209 degrees to qualified masters’s clinical/medical social work students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Clinical/Medical Social Work at Capella University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Columbia. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical/Medical Social Work Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Missouri - Columbia is a public institution located in Columbia, Missouri. The school has a large population, and it awarded 81 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full University of Missouri - Columbia Clinical/Medical Social Work Report
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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
- *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.
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