2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia
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Ranked Colleges
205
Degrees Awarded
$45,890
Avg Salary
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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 District of Columbia, there were 243 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,600 and $31,892 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 205 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer 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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in District of Columbia
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Catholic University of America landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 120 diplomas to qualified masters’s social work students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Social Work at Catholic University of America
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Gallaudet University landed the #2 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s social work degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Social Work at Gallaudet
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 69 degrees to qualified masters’s social work students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Social Work at Howard
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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
- *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.
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