2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Social Work

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Other Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 370 people earned their degree in other social work, making the major the 690th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 other social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other social work. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other social work programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other social work program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Other Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Social Work

#1

Gallaudet University

Washington, District of Columbia

#2 in overall quality

$14,595 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gallaudet University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Other Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Gallaudet is a small school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 22 bachelors’s other social work degrees in 2019-2020.

Gallaudet also took the #2 spot in our “Best Other Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Gallaudet University is $14,595 for Bachelor’s Degree Other Social Work students.

The 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 full report on Other Social Work at Gallaudet University

#2

Marquette University

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$29,756 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marquette University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Other Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Marquette University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Marquette also made our “Best Other Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $29,756 for bachelor’s degree other social work students per year to attend Marquette University.

The low student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Full Marquette University Other Social Work Report

Notes and References

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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