by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 Rhode Island, there were 215 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,509 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 121 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,833 and $24,930 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in social work. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in social work.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 “Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island College landed the #1 spot on the list. Rhode Island College is a medium-sized school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 102 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Providence College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s. Providence is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 11 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salve Regina University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s list. Newport, Rhode Island is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s social work degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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