Out of the 1 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Other Social Work Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified ’s other social work students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.