by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Arizona” 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 Arizona, there were 1,319 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,317 and $20,741 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 675 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,087 and $27,181 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arizona” 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 Arizona” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for arizona bachelor’s degree social work students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the #1 spot on the list. NAU is a large school located in Flagstaff, Arizona that handed out 174 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand Canyon University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arizona. Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit institution located in Phoenix, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 298 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arizona list. Arizona State University - Tempe is a large public school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 203 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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