2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in Utah

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Utah” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Social Work is the 12th most popular major in the country with 57,618 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, social work graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,459 and had an average of $30,084 in loans still to pay off.

Across Utah, there were 655 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,017 and $23,893 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality social work programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the social work program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Utah” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Utah

The colleges and universities below are the best for utah doctor’s degree social work students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in Utah

#1

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

#1 in overall quality

$24,695 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Utah landed the #1 spot on the list. Salt Lake City, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s social work degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

U of U also made our “Best Social Work Doctor’s Degree Schools in Utah” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at U of U are $24,695.

Read full report on Social Work at U of U

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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