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2023 Most Popular Online Social Work Schools in the Southwest Region

1 College
$36,306 Avg Salary
$23,188 Avg Student Debt

With 33,631 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, social work is the #6 most popular major in the United States.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Online Social Work Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 1 school in the Southwest Region offering online programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Online Social Work Colleges.

#1

Western New Mexico University

Silver City, NM

Our 2023 rankings named Western New Mexico University the most popular online school in the Southwest Region for social work students. Western New Mexico University is a small public school located in the town of Silver City.

Read full report on Social Work at Western New Mexico University

Explore the most popular online social work schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 2,211
Arizona 577
Oklahoma 185
New Mexico 270

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

Majors Similar to Social Work

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 values are for the top school 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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