PhD Social Work at University of Iowa

Programme overview

Social Work, PhD is offered through the Social Work in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa.

Faculty: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Department: Social Work | Duration: 78 s.h. required | Location: Iowa City, IA, United States

What you will study

The Doctor of Philosophy program in social work requires 78 s.h. of graduate credit.

Career pathways

Graduates become leaders in education, research, and government. All of the PhD graduates from the University of Iowa's School of Social Work program have obtained employment within one year of graduation.

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Application information

Entry requirements

To ensure that all doctoral students receive mentoring, the School of Social Work typically admits three or four students annually; approximately 35% of applicants are admitted. Admission Requirements Students are required to have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and a minimum undergraduate grade-point average of 3.00 (on a 4.00 scale). Students should have completed an introductory statistics course (including graphing techniques for presenting data, descriptive statistics, correlation, introduction to regression, prediction, logic of statistical inference, elementary probability models, estimation, and tests of significance) with a grade of B or higher. Research methods courses taken in a Master of Social Work (MSW) program typically do not meet the criteria for an introductory statistics course.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Graduate and professional admission requirements, costs and deadlines are set by each degree programme; applicants apply through the Admissions Profile application and may apply to only one programme unless applying to a combined degree programme.

Apply through the official page: https://admissions.uiowa.edu/

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