2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 57,401 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, social work is the 9th most popular major in the United States.

Across District of Columbia, there were 233 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,283 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in social work. That schools that top this list have a program in social work in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in District of Columbia

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Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Howard University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 69 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s social work students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Catholic University of America. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Work Major in District of Columbia list. Catholic University of America is a medium-sized school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 131 doctorate’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Social Work at Catholic University of America

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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