2025 Best Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
4Colleges in the Southeast Region
320Doctor's Degrees
Social Work is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #38 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of social work. Combined, these schools handed out 320 doctor's degrees in social work to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Social Work School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of social work for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality social work program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized social work related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for social work students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Social Work Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Social Work in the Southeast Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for social work students seeking a a doctor's degree.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Social Work
It's difficult to beat Barry University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in social work. Located in the large suburb of Miami, Barry University is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in social work from Barry University
Best Social Work Colleges by State
Explore the best social work schools for a specific state in the Southeast Region .
One of 3 majors within the Social Work area of study, Social Work has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).