2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Social Work is the 12th most popular major in the country with 57,618 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, social work graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,459 and had an average of $30,084 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Hampshire, there were 159 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,367 and $34,560 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 78 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,323 and $42,175 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent social work programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the social work program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in New Hampshire (With Aid)

#1

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

Durham, New Hampshire

#1 in overall quality

$29,970 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$46,300 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid. UNH is a fairly large school located in Durham, New Hampshire that handed out 78 masters’s social work degrees in 2019-2020.

UNH also made our “Best Social Work Master’s Degree Schools in New Hampshire” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus are $29,970.

Read more about Social Work at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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