2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Social Work

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Clinical/Medical Social Work Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 160 clinical/medical social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Clinical/Medical Social Work Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in clinical/medical social work. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in clinical/medical social work.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Clinical/Medical Social Work Major for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 4 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Social Work

1

New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas, New Mexico

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Clinical/Medical Social Work Major for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico Highlands University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Las Vegas, New Mexico, this small public school handed out 81 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s clinical/medical social work students in 2020-2021.

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2

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Dakota. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Clinical/Medical Social Work Major for a Bachelor’s. Located in Vermillion, South Dakota, this medium-sized public school awarded 43 degrees to qualified bachelors’s clinical/medical social work students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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3

Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus
Portales, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Clinical/Medical Social Work Major for a Bachelor’s list. This small school is located in Portales, New Mexico, and it awarded 36 bachelors’s clinical/medical social work degrees in 2020-2021.

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4

Morgan State University
Baltimore, Maryland

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Clinical/Medical Social Work Major for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Morgan State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Morgan State is a public institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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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

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.