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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$10,290 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 2,211 degrees and certificates from a Texas school, making the subject the 6th in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Texas to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for social work students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Texas

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

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

Our analysis found The University of Texas at Austin to be the best value school for social work students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Texas. UT Austin is a fairly large public school located in the city of Austin.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Austin are $12,050 per year.

UT Austin also took the #3 spot in our Best Social Work Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas rankings.

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#2

University of Houston

Houston, TX

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Social Work Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. Located in the city of Houston, UH is a public college with a very large student population.

UH graduate students pay an average of $9,727 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UH excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Social Work Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at The University of Texas at Arlington helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value social work schools in Texas. UT Arlington is a very large public school located in the large city of Arlington.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UT Arlington are $10,853 a year.

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#4

Baylor University

Waco, TX

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Baylor University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value social work schools in Texas. Baylor is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Waco.

Baylor graduate students pay an average of $37,674 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Social Work Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Social Work Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 577
Oklahoma 185
New Mexico 270

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 4 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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