2025 Best Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in New York

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in social work, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #42 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for social work students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 97 doctor's degrees in social work during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on social work students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of social work students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt social work students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized social work related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for social work students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Social Work Schools

The social work school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in New York.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Social Work in New York

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in social work.

Top New York Schools for a Doctorate in Social Work

1

New York University
New York, NY

23 Annual Graduates

$122,282 Median Starting Salary

New York University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in social work. NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.

Doctorate graduates who receive their degree from the social work program make an average of $122,282 for their early career.

More information about a doctorate in social work from New York University

2

Fordham University
Bronx, NY

10 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in social work has to check out Fordham University. Fordham U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Bronx.More information about a doctorate in social work from Fordham University

Best Social Work Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	31
Maryland	119	10
New Jersey	115	12
District of Columbia	81	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Social Work

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Social Work Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Social Work	97

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.