2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in Connecticut

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut” ranking.

With 56,762 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, social work is the 8th most popular major in the United States.

Across Connecticut, there were 644 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,570 and $105,639 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality social work programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the social work program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut doctor’s degree social work students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in Connecticut

#1

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$41,576 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut list. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s social work degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

UCONN did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Social Work Doctor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCONN are $41,576, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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