{"id":183573,"date":"2022-03-29T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T19:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=183573"},"modified":"2022-03-30T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:50:30","slug":"uconn-school-of-social-work-graduate-program-among-top-12-nationwide-and-no-1-in-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2022\/03\/uconn-school-of-social-work-graduate-program-among-top-12-nationwide-and-no-1-in-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn School of Social Work Graduate Program Among Top 12% Nationwide and No. 1 in the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UConn\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssw.uconn.edu\/\">School of Social Work<\/a> (SSW) ranks in the top 12 percent of best graduate schools for social work, tied at no. 36, per the 2023\u00a0<em>U.S. News &amp; World Report\u00a0<\/em>rankings released earlier today.<!--more--> That makes SSW the no. 1 top-ranked graduate school of social work in the state of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Social Work is the oldest program in the state graduating social workers since 1948, and it was the first public university in Connecticut to offer a bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s, and doctoral degree in social work.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_183576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183576\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-183576 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/social-work180427b470-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Woman holds up UConn School of Social Work sweatshirt.\" width=\"282\" height=\"188\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/social-work180427b470-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/social-work180427b470-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/social-work180427b470-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/social-work180427b470-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/social-work180427b470-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/social-work180427b470-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/social-work180427b470-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/social-work180427b470-998x665.jpg 998w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 282px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 282\/188;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-183576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella Randazzo looking at School of Social Work clothing at Barnes &amp; Noble bookstore on April 26, 2018. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;At the School of Social Work, we are proud to stand among leading graduate schools of social work in the state and nationwide,&#8221; says Dean Nina Rovinelli Heller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis recognition is owed to our dedicated faculty and staff, who are committed to the generation and wide dissemination of cutting edge and impactful knowledge, informed by social justice and anti-oppressive lenses, through traditional and innovative research methodologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two hundred ninety-eight MSW programs accredited by the Council on Social Work Education were ranked. In an advanced social work curriculum, students take courses in social welfare policy, human behavior and ethics, balanced with hands-on experience in clinical settings. Each school&#8217;s score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions. UConn ranked number 36 (tie).<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/best-graduate-schools\/top-health-schools\/social-work-rankings\">Best Schools for Social Work rankings at U.S. News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn\u2019s\u00a0School of Social Work ranks in the top 12 percent of best graduate schools for social work, tied at no. 36, per the 2023\u00a0U.S. News &amp; World Report\u00a0rankings released earlier today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":183575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2378],"class_list":["post-183573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssw"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 01:55:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183573"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183602,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183573\/revisions\/183602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/183575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183573"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=183573"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=183573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}