by our College Data Analytics Team
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 Social Work Major in New Hampshire” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 58,326 people earned their degree in social work, making the major the 13th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, social work graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $37,651 and had an average of $26,679 in loans still to pay off.
Across New Hampshire, there were 171 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,290 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 82 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,795 and $26,908 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Hampshire” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in social work. That schools that top this list have a program in social work in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Hampshire” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Hampshire”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, Plymouth State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Plymouth State University is a small public school situated in Plymouth, New Hampshire. It awarded 18 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Hampshire list. UNH is a fairly large public school situated in Durham, New Hampshire. It awarded 57 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full University of New Hampshire - Main Campus Social Work Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Anselm College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Hampshire. Manchester, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s social work degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%.
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