by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arkansas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Social Work is the 13th most popular major in the country with 58,326 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Arkansas, there were 419 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,717 and $28,023 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 125 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,270 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arkansas” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in social work. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in social work.
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The social work school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arkansas”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arkansas”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arkansas. UA Little Rock is a medium-sized school located in Little Rock, Arkansas that handed out 51 masters’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arkansas State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arkansas. A-State is located in Jonesboro, Arkansas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 40 masters’s social work degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in Arkansas list. Located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, this large public school awarded 34 degrees to qualified masters’s social work students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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