The school offers an advanced standing M.S.W. program for students who have earned a baccalaureate degree in social work from an undergraduate social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. The baccalaureate degree must have been earned within six academic years prior to matriculation in the M.S.W. program.
Students with foreign degrees cannot be considered for advanced standing and must complete the full two- year program.
Students who are admitted as advanced standing students enter in the summer term with a provisional admission, where they will be required to complete successfully two courses with a 3.0 or better grade in each course in preparation for beginning work as second-year students in the fall term. Upon successful completion, formal admission will be extended.
Also, prior to beginning the second-year advanced program, advanced standing students must have completed an introductory statistics course covering descriptive and basic inferential statistical procedures within the last six academic years, with a grade of C or better.
In the fall term, these students are considered second- year students in the advanced program. They are required to take the course of study associated with their method and to cluster choices in keeping with those available in the advanced program. Full-time advanced standing students must complete the program in one year following the summer term.
