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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$17,313 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$44,665 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Social Work Master'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.

The Best Value Social Work Master's Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in Connecticut to see which ones offered the best value master'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 Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Social Work Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Connecticut Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Social Work

#1

University of Saint Joseph

West Hartford, CT

Our 2023 rankings named University of Saint Joseph the best value school in Connecticut for social work students working on their master’s degree. Located in the suburb of West Hartford, USJ is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at USJ are $15,264 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Connecticut State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Social Work Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut list. Located in the medium-sized city of New Haven, SCSU is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

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

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#3

Quinnipiac University

Hamden, CT

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Quinnipiac University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Social Work Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut list. Located in the suburb of Hamden, Quinnipiac is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

Quinnipiac graduate students pay an average of $20,340 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Quinnipiac not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Social Work Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut list.

Full Social Work at Quinnipiac University Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Social Work Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut list. UCONN is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

UCONN graduate students pay an average of $20,325 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UCONN also made our Best Social Work Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut list, coming in at #4.

Full Social Work at University of Connecticut Report

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 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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