by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Colorado” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 Colorado, there were 1,103 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,998 and $26,560 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 259 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,670 and $29,027 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in social work. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their social work program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Colorado” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado bachelor’s degree social work students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado State University - Pueblo. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Colorado. Colorado State University - Pueblo is located in Pueblo, Colorado and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 33 bachelors’s social work degrees to qualified students.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Metropolitan State University of Denver landed the #2 spot on the list. Metropolitan State University of Denver is a fairly large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 105 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #3 spot on the list. Fort Collins, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s social work degrees to 98 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado Mesa University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Colorado list. Located in Grand Junction, Colorado, this medium-sized public school awarded 23 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s social work students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Colorado. UCCS is a public institution located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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