2024 Best Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

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.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for social work students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 11 doctor's degrees in social work during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on social work students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of social work students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• 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 colleges for social work students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Social Work Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.

 

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Social Work in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in social work.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Doctorate in Social Work

1

University of Denver
Denver, CO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

4 Annual Graduates

University of Denver is a wonderful choice for students interested in a doctor's degree in social work. DU is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Denver.More information about a doctorate in social work from University of Denver

2

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

7 Annual Graduates

University of Utah is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in social work. Located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in social work from University of Utah

Best Social Work Colleges by State

Explore the best social work colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	182	4
Utah	144	7

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Rankings in Majors Related to Social Work

One of 3 majors within the Social Work area of study, Social Work has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Army Medicine. More about our data sources and methodologies.