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2023 Best Value Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in Connecticut

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$16,823 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$68,493 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Social Work Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, social work students earned 407 degrees and certificates from a Connecticut school, making the subject the 7th in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Connecticut to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for social work students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Social Work Doctor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for social work majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Best Connecticut Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Social Work

Our 2023 rankings named Southern Connecticut State University the best value school in Connecticut for social work students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the medium-sized city of New Haven, SCSU is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at SCSU are $13,321 per year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Connecticut helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value social work schools in Connecticut. UCONN is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Storrs.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UCONN are $20,325 per year.

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Best Value Social Work Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Social Work Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 1,670
Rhode Island 82
New Hampshire 89
Maine 265
Vermont 36

Social Work is one of 5 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Administration 13,571
Public Policy 3,737
Human Services 1,277
Community Organization & Advocacy 741
Other Public Administration 295

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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.

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