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2023 Best Value Social Work Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$15,073 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$44,665 Avg Salary

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

With 218 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, social work is the #12 most popular major in South Carolina.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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 Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in South Carolina to see which master'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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Social Work Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina

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

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

Our analysis found University of South Carolina - Columbia to be the best value school for social work students who want to pursue a master’s degree in South Carolina. UofSC is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Columbia.

UofSC graduate students pay an average of $14,134 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UofSC also made our Best Social Work Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list, coming in at #3.

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#2

Winthrop University

Rock Hill, SC

The excellent master’s degree programs at Winthrop University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value social work schools in South Carolina. Located in the small city of Rock Hill, Winthrop is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Winthrop graduate students pay an average of $16,012 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Social Work at Winthrop University

Best Value Social Work Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 374
Florida 730
Georgia 437
North Carolina 845
Tennessee 662
Kentucky 859
Louisiana 591
Alabama 630
Mississippi 139
Arkansas 130
West Virginia 143

One of 5 majors within the area of study, social work has other similar majors worth exploring.

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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