2024 Best Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
11
Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
56
Doctor's Degrees
If you pursue a doctor's degree in
social work, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #38 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 11 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 56 doctor's degrees in social work during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Social Work School for Your Doctor's Degree
The social work doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to social work students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other social work students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized social work related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for social work students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.