2024 Best Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
5
Colleges in the Southwest Region
20
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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the Southwest 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 20 doctor's degrees in social work during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Social Work School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of social work for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality social work program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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
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 Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.