Graduate Programs is pleased to announce its Fall 2014 Social Work Grad Rankings according to students, enumerating the best graduate programs in the country based solely on ratings and reviews from current or recent graduate students posted on graduateprograms.com.
Program rankings, compiled using data gathered between September 1, 2012 and September 30, 2014, encompass reviews posted by more than 70,000 students participating in over 1,600 graduate programs nationwide. Ratings are based on a 10 star system (with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best).
The Top 25 Social Work Programs are listed below:
1 (tie) CUNY Lehman College
1 Florida State University
3 University of Kansas
4 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
5 California State University Northridge
6 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
7 Washington University in St. Louis
8 Saint Louis University
9 University of Southern California (USC)
10 University of Utah
11 Fordham University
12 University of Louisville
13 University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus
14 Case Western Reserve University
15 Hunter College - CUNY
15 Simmons College
17 Boston College
18 Alabama A&M University
18 Baylor University
20 Arizona State University
21 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
22 University of Georgia
23 University of Maryland Baltimore
24 Adelphi University
25 University of Illinois at Chicago
METHODOLOGY
Graduateprograms.com reaches current and recent graduate students through scholarship entries as well as social media platforms.
Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover a variety of student topics such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid and quality of network.
For a given graduate program, rankings are determined by calculating the average score for each program based on the 15 ranking categories. These scores are then compared across all ranked schools for that program and are translated into a final ranking for that graduate program, i.e., “business and management”. A given graduate program is not ranked until a minimum threshold of graduate student surveys is completed for that program