Master of Social Work (MSW) Programs in New York City (NYC)

There are 12 accredited colleges and universities in New York City (NYC) that offer Master of Social Work (MSW) degree programs. Among these schools are five public universities, including the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University), which is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system of public universities, and four City University of New York (CUNY) system public colleges: the College of Staten Island, Hunter College, Lehman College, and York College. In addition, there are eight non-profit private colleges and universities with campuses in NYC that have MSW programs, including: Adelphi University, Columbia University, Fordham University, Long Island University (LIU), New York University (NYU), Touro University, and Yeshiva University.

All of the schools in NYC offer MSW programs for both traditional students and advanced standing students. Most traditional MSW programs accept students with a bachelor’s degree in any field or discipline, as long as they can demonstrate why they wish to pursue a master’s degree in social work. Advanced standing MSW programs are specifically designed for applicants who have earned a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree from a program that is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). All of the MSW programs offered by schools in NYC are fully accredited by the CSWE.

• Adelphi University (Accredited)
• College of Staten Island (Accredited)
• Columbia University (Accredited)
• Fordham University (Accredited)
• Hunter College, City University of New York (Accredited)
• Lehman College, City University of New York (Accredited)
• Long Island University Post and Long Island University Brooklyn Collaborative (Accredited)
• New York University (Accredited)
• State University of New York at Stony Brook (Accredited)
• Touro University (Accredited)
• Yeshiva University (Accredited)
• York College, City University of New York (Accredited)

The schools with campuses in NYC that offer MSW programs provide students with an array of options in terms of program formats and curricula. There are schools with clinical practice, macro practice, and advanced generalist practice specializations, as well as programs with concentrations in children and family services, gerontology, human services management, mental health, school social work, substance abuse, trauma, and more. In addition, there are programs that are fully campus-based, and there are programs that use a hybrid delivery mode, combining on-campus and online instruction. Finally, four of the schools with campuses in NYC currently offer online MSW programs that provide all or most of their instruction via internet-based distance learning platforms.

MSW programs offered at campuses in NYC are grouped based on their admissions requirements (traditional vs. advanced standing programs) and delivery mode (campus-based/hybrid vs. online programs) in the sections below.

• Traditional Campus-Based MSW Programs in New York City
• Traditional Online MSW Programs in New York City
• Advanced Standing Campus-Based MSW Programs in New York City
• Advanced Standing Online MSW Programs in New York City
• Directory of All MSW Programs in New York City

Traditional MSW Programs in New York City

A traditional MSW program is defined as a full-length master’s program that is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to provide professional training and academic instruction in clinical and/or macro practice social work. Like master’s programs in other fields, these programs require applicants to have completed a bachelor’s degree. However, traditional MSW program applicants are not required to have studied social work at the bachelor’s level or to have earned a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree. Students in a traditional MSW program generally take two years of full-time study or three to four years of part-time enrollment to earn their degree. As part of this process, they are required to engage in a minimum of 900 hours of field education, a signature pedagogy in social work that places students at agencies and organizations so that they can learn how social work is practiced in real-world conditions under the supervision of experienced social workers.

In NYC, there are 12 schools with CSWE-accredited MSW programs for traditional standing students that are offered in either a campus-based format or a hybrid format that includes some online instruction but that requires students to attend a significant number of campus-based sessions. These programs are grouped together as “campus-based” programs. There are also four NYC-based schools that have online MSW program options. Finally, students who are currently employed in the human services sector may be eligible for the One Year Residency (OYR) programs offered by Columbia University, Hunter College, and NYU. OYR programs require students to have at least two years of professional human services experience. Students in these programs are able to complete field education requirements at their place of employment.

Traditional Campus-Based MSW Programs in New York City

Adelphi University has its main campus on Long Island, but it also offers a traditional MSW program at its Manhattan Center campus in NYC. The program, which is offered through the university’s School of Social Work, has an Advanced Contemporary Direct Practice curriculum that allows students to choose from four specialization options: Children and Families; Health Across the Life Course; Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Trauma in Context; and Human Service Management and Organizational Leadership. Students in the program complete a 64-credit curriculum that includes 950 hours of field education. Full-time students can complete the program’s traditional track in 16 months of year-round enrollment or two years with summers off. Part-time enrollment generally leads to graduating in three to four years.

The College of Staten Island (CSI), a City University of New York (CUNY) system public college, has a campus-based traditional MSW program that it offers through its Department of Social Work. The program has a Social Work Practice with People with Disabilities focus that allows students to choose between a Clinical Practice or a Macro Practice specialization. Students in the program must engage in 1200 hours of field education and can graduate in two years of full-time enrollment or opt for part-time enrollment and graduate in three to four years. The Department of Social Work at CSI expects applicants to its MSW program to have a cumulative undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0 on a four-point scale and to have completed a college level course in statistics.

Columbia University has a campus-based MSW program that is offered through the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW). The CSSW offers two options for traditional standing students. Students who hold a bachelor’s degree and do not have prior experience in human services can apply for admission to a 60-credit traditional track that includes 1200 hours of field education. This track has a completion time of 16 months for full-time students who take summer session classes or two years for full-time students who do not enroll in summer sessions. Part-time students can earn their degree in three to four years. The CSSW also has a One-Year Residency for Working Professionals (Reduced Residency) MSW program that requires a bachelor’s degree plus at least two years of prior employment in the human services sector. Students who qualify for this 60-credit traditional program option complete their degree in three years of part-time enrollment while engaging in 900 hours of field education at their place of employment.

Columbia University’s MSW program offers several specialization options including: Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice; Advanced Generalist Programming & Practice; Policy Practice; and Social Enterprise Administration. In addition, students can choose to enroll in an Accelerated Policy Practice track or a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) track and/or to further specialize in one or more of seven concentrations: Aging/Gerontology; Contemporary Social Issues; Family, Youth, & Children’s Services; Health, Mental Health, & Disabilities; International Social Work and Services to Immigrants and Refugees; School-Based and School-Linked Services; and World of Work.

Fordham University’s School of Social Service offers an MSW program with a 66-credit, full-length traditional track. The program is offered on Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan and has an Advanced Integrative Practice curriculum designed to prepare students for employment in clinical and/or macro practice social work. Students in the program complete 1200 hours of field education and can choose from four designated social work focus areas: Individuals and Families; Organizations and Communities; Evaluation; and Policy Practice and Advocacy. This is a campus-based program that allows full-time students to graduate in as few as 16 months, while students who opt for part-time enrollment generally take three to four years to earn their degree.

Hunter College, City University of New York, a CUNY system public university in Manhattan, offers a campus-based MSW program through its Silberman School of Social Work. The program has several pathways for students. Students can choose a two-year, full-time pathway that has three options: Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups; Community Organizing; and Organizational Management and Leadership (OML) or an “Accelerated” format that allows traditional standing students to graduate in 18 months while completing the program’s Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups option. Both of these pathways require students to engage in 900 hours of field education. Students may be able to pursue optional fields of practice in Aging; Child Welfare: Children, Youth, and Families; Global Social Work and Practice with Immigrants and Refugees; Health; Mental Health; World of Work; School Social Work; Criminal Justice; or Sexuality and Gender.

Hunter College also has a designated pathway for students who have at least two years of experience in human services and who are currently employed in a human services capacity. This One-Year Residency (OYR) MSW program option takes five semesters and two summer sessions to complete and includes 900 hours of field education requirements. Students can choose from the same three options as the full-time program: Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups; Community Organizing; and Organizational Management and Leadership (OML).

Lehman College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, has a traditional MSW program that it offers in two formats. Students can enroll in a two-year, full-time track that requires attendance at campus-based meetings held twice per week in the evenings when school is in session. Students who choose this option spend three days per week engaged in field education. Alternatively, Lehman College has a Three-Year Extended track MSW program for part-time students that includes evening class meetings and 15 hours of field education per week when school is in session. Both tracks have an Advanced Generalist curriculum that prepares students for social work practice with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations, as well as for administrative, research, and policy practice. Students complete 1200 of field education as part of the traditional MSW program curriculum.

The Long Island University Post (LIU Post) and Long Island University Brooklyn (LIU Brooklyn) Collaborative offers a joint MSW program at LIU’s Brooklyn campus in New York City. The program has five concentration options: Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors; Child and Family Welfare; Forensic Social Work; Gerontology; and Nonprofit Management. Students who opt for the Nonprofit Management, Gerontology, or Forensic Social Work specialization can choose to earn a graduate certificate in their focus area by adding one course to the program’s 60-credit curriculum. Full-time students in the LIU Collaborative MSW program can earn their degree in two years, while part-time students take three to four years to graduate. The program incorporates 1000 hours of required field internships.

New York University (NYU) has a traditional MSW program that is offered through the Silver School of Social Work. The on-campus program at NYU’s Washington Square campus in Manhattan has several enrollment options. Full-time students can earn their degree in as few as 16 months by attending summer sessions or opt for a two-year completion plan that does not include summer coursework. Both options include 900 hours of field education. The Silver School also has 32-month and Extended program options that allow students to enroll on a part-time basis. For all of these options, students complete 65 credits and 900 hours of field education. All of the MSW program options offered by NYU’s Silverman School of Social work have a Clinical Practice Social Work focus with optional specializations in Child & Adolescent Maltreatment Prevention, Evidence-Based Practice, School Social Work, Social Work Practice in Higher Education, Substance Use and Co-occurring Disorders, and Palliative and End of Life Care.

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University), which is part of the SUNY system and has its main campus on Long Island, offers a campus-based MSW program at its Manhattan campus in NYC. Students in the program are required to complete a 68-credit curriculum that includes 924 hours of field education. Students who enroll in the Manhattan campus program attend most of their classes in NYC but must take at least one course at Stony Brook’s main campus on Long Island per New York State Education Department guidelines. Stony Brook’s MSW program has three specialization options: Community, Policy, and Political Social Action (CPPSA); Families, Youth, and Transition to Adulthood (FYT); and Integrated Health: Physical, Psychological, and Social Well Being (IH). The program has a two-year completion time for full-time students, while part-time students take three to four years to earn their degree.

Touro University offers a traditional MSW program at its main campus in Manhattan and at a secondary campus in Brooklyn. The program has a 60-credit Clinical Social Work curriculum that incorporates 1200 hours of field education. Students in the program have the option of choosing a practice-area specialization in Aging, Military Social Work, or Mental Illness. Full-time students can earn their degree in 16 months of year-round enrollment or in two years with no summer courses. For students who would prefer a part-time enrollment schedule, the program has three- and four-years completion plans as well.

Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work offers a traditional MSW program that has a fully campus-based enrollment option and a “Hybrid Summer Block” option that combines on-campus and online instruction and begins with a summer term session. Students in the program complete a 60-credit curriculum that includes 1200 hours of field education. The program has an Advanced Practice Methods curriculum with concentrations in Clinical Social Work, Group Social Work, and Community Social Work and optional certificates in Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC), Gerontology & Palliative Care, and Trauma-Informed Practice. Full-time students can earn their degree at Yeshiva University in two years; part-time students follow a three-year completion plan.

York College, City University of New York, a Queens-based CUNY system school, offers a traditional MSW program in a hybrid format that combines on-campus and online instruction. Students attend one weekday on-campus session per week, plus one in-person Saturday session each month while the rest of instruction takes place online. The program has an Advanced Urban Social Work Practice curriculum with a focus on social work in Healthcare Settings . The 62-credit program is offered in a full-time format that takes most students two years to complete. During this time, students are required to engage in 900 hours of field education.

Traditional Online MSW Programs in New York City

Columbia University offers its traditional MSW program in an online format that does not require students to attend any campus-based sessions. The 60-credit online program is offered by the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW), and it does require students to engage in a minimum of 1200 hours of site-based field education. Students in the program have several curricular choices. The program has three specialization options: Advanced Clinical Practice; Policy Practice; and Social Enterprise Administration. In addition, the program has two field-of-practice options for online students: Family, Youth, & Children’s Services; and Health, Mental Health, & Disabilities. Full-time students in can graduate in two years; part-time students take three to four years to earn their degree.

Fordham University’s School of Social Service offers its traditional MSW program in a fully online format that does not require any campus visits. The program’s curriculum consists of 66 credits, including two 600-hours field practicums for a total of 1200 hours of site-based field education. Students in the program complete an Advanced Integrative Practice specialization that includes training and instruction in clinical and macro practice social work. Students can also choose from four concentrations options: Individuals and Families; Organizations and Communities; Evaluation; and Policy Practice and Advocacy. The program is designed to be completed in as few as 16 months by traditional standing students who enroll full-time, and in three to four years by those who opt for part-time enrollment.

Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work has an online MSW program that gives students the choice of two format options: a fully asynchronous online program option that does not have scheduled class meetings; and a Live Virtual Classroom online program option in which students receive instruction through weekly online classes that meet at designated times. In the asynchronous online program, traditional students complete a 60-credit curriculum with a specialization in Advanced Clinical Practice Social Work and optional certificates in Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) and Gerontology & Palliative Care. The Live Virtual Classroom online program has a 60-credit curriculum with specializations in Clinical Social Work, Group Social Work, or Community Social Work with optional certificates in Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC), Gerontology & Palliative Care, and Trauma Informed Practice. Both online program options require students to complete 1200 hours of field education and are designed to be completed in two years of full-time enrollment or three to four years of part-time study.

Advanced Standing MSW Programs in New York City

Advanced standing is a designation that refers to the admissions requirements and curricular structure of an MSW program. Advanced standing programs offer a curriculum that is designed specifically for students who hold a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree from a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program. Students in CSWE-accredited BSW programs complete much of the same foundational coursework that full-time traditional MSW students (those without a BSW degree) take in the first year of their MSW studies. In addition, BSW programs require at least 500 hours of field education. Rather than making qualified BSW graduates repeat courses and field placements that they have already completed, advanced standing MSW programs allow students to begin their MSW studies with the specialization coursework and field placements that are typically reserved for the second year of a full-time traditional MSW program. Thus, advanced standing status significantly reduces the number of courses and field education hours required to earn an MSW, allowing students to fulfill graduation requirements in one year of full-time enrollment or roughly two years of part-time enrollment.

While a BSW degree is the baseline requirement for advanced standing status, most programs have additional conditions for admission. For example, many programs require students to have earned their BSW degree within the last five to ten years in order to establish eligibility for advanced standing status. Some programs also have minimum cumulative undergraduate grade point average (GPA) requirements, typically 3.0 or higher on a four-point scale. Finally, the granting of advanced standing credits may be contingent upon a student receiving a grade of B or better in all relevant social work major courses. BSW graduates who are not granted admission to an advanced standing track can enroll in a program’s traditional track in order to earn their MSW degree.

Advanced Standing Campus-Based MSW Programs in New York City

Adelphi University, whose main campus is located on Long Island, offers an advanced standing MSW program at the university’s Manhattan Center campus in NYC. The program has an Advanced Contemporary Direct Practice concentration with four specializations: Children and Families; Health Across the Life Course; Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Trauma in Context; and Human Service Management and Organizational Leadership. The advanced standing track requires applicants to have a BSW degree conferred within the last five years by a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program and a grade of B or better in all of their social work major courses. Students in the program must complete 475 hours of field education and can graduate one year of full-time enrollment or two years of part-time study.

The College of Staten Island (CSI) offers a campus-based MSW program with an advanced standing track that is designed for BSW graduates whose degree was conferred by a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program within the last five years. The program also requires advanced standing applicants to have achieved a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher on a four-point scale and to have earned a passing grade in a college-level statistics course. The advanced standing curriculum consists of 32 credits, including a 720-hour field education internship. It has a specialization in Social Work Practice with People with Disabilities (intellectual, physical, sensory, psychiatric, chronic health, and other impairments) that gives students the choice of pursuing a Clinical Practice or a Macro Practice concentration. Advanced standing students can complete the CSI program in one year of full-time enrollment or two years of part-time enrollment.

Columbia University’s campus-based MSW program has an advanced standing track that requires applicants to hold a BSW degree conferred by a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program within the last five years. Students who are eligible to enroll in the advanced standing track are granted waivers for up to 27 of the 60 credits required of traditional standing students in the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW) MSW program. They are thus able to graduate after completing one year of full-time enrollment, beginning with a summer session intensive. The program incorporates 600 hours of required field education. The program has four designated concentrations: Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice; Advanced Generalist Programming & Practice; Policy Practice; and Social Enterprise Administration. Students can further specialize by choosing among seven field-of-practice options: Aging/Gerontology; Contemporary Social Issues; Family, Youth, & Children’s Services; Health, Mental Health, & Disabilities; International Social Work and Services to Immigrants and Refugees; School-Based and School-Linked Services; and World of Work. Finally, the program gives students the option of pursuing an Accelerated Policy Practice track or a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) track.

Fordham University offers its campus-based MSW program in an advanced standing format for qualified BSW graduates who earned their degree by attending a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program and achieving a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher on a four-point scale. The advanced standing program track includes one 600-hour field practicum that is integrated into a 33-credit curriculum. The curriculum has an Advanced Integrative Practice specialization with four concentration options: Individuals and Families; Organizations and Communities; Evaluation; and Policy Practice and Advocacy. Fordham University’s advanced standing program is designed to be completed in eight months of full-time enrollment or 16 months of part-time enrollment.

Hunter College, City University of New York confers advanced standing status to MSW program applicants who hold a BSW degree earned within the last five years provided they have a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher on a four-point scale and a GPA of 3.2 or higher in all social work major courses. Applicants who are granted advanced standing status complete a 36-credit curriculum that includes 450 hours of field education. Students choose from one of two pathways: Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups; or Community Organizing. In addition, students are able to pursue optional fields of practice in Aging; Child Welfare: Children, Youth, and Families; Global Social Work and Practice with Immigrants and Refugees; Health; Mental Health; World of Work; School Social Work; Criminal Justice; or Sexuality and Gender. The program is designed to be completed in one year by students who enroll on a full-time basis.

Lehman College, a City University of New York (CUNY) system public school, offers an advanced standing MSW program track that is designed for students who hold a BSW degree from a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program. Advanced standing applicants are expected to have a cumulative undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0 on a four-point scale, with a 3.2 GPA in all social work major courses. The MSW program is campus based with classes that meet two times per week in the evenings. Advanced standing students are expected to spend three days per week engaged in field education and to complete a total of 600 hours of fieldwork prior to graduating. The MSW curriculum has an Advanced Generalist Practice specialization, which means it provides training and instruction in clinical and macro practice social work. This is a full-time program that most students complete in one year.

The Long Island University Post (LIU Post) and Long Island University Brooklyn (LIU Brooklyn) Collaborative draws on the resources from LIU’s two campuses to jointly offer an MSW program on the school’s Brooklyn campus. The MSW program has five specialization options: Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors; Child and Family Welfare; Forensic Social Work; Gerontology; and Nonprofit Management. The program has an advanced standing track for qualified BSW graduates who earned their degree from a CSWE-accredited program while attaining a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher on a four-point scale. Advanced standing students in the program are granted waivers for BSW major courses in which they earned a grade of B or better. Students who meet all advanced standing requirements complete a 30-credit curriculum that includes 600 hours of field education, which can be accomplished in one year of full-time enrollment. Students who choose to specialize in Nonprofit Management, Gerontology, or Forensic Social Work in the LIU program can earn a graduate certificate in their area of concentration by taking one course in addition to the required MSW coursework.

New York University (NYU) offers a campus-based MSW program through the Silver School of Social Work with an advanced standing track that is designed for BSW program graduates who attended a program accredited by the CSWE and received their degree within the last five years. Students who are granted advanced standing status in the program complete a 32-credit curriculum. This curriculum includes 450 hours of required field education and takes full-time students two semesters to complete. The MSW program offered by the Silver School of Social Work at NYU has a Clinical Practice Social Work focus with optional specializations in Child & Adolescent Maltreatment Prevention, Evidence-Based Practice, School Social Work, Social Work Practice in Higher Education, Substance Use and Co-occurring Disorders, and Palliative and End of Life Care.

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) offers an MSW program at the Stony Brook Manhattan campus in NYC. The program has an advanced standing track that requires applicants to have earned a BSW degree from a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program within the last five years. The MSW program offers specializations in: Community, Policy, and Political Social Action (CPPSA); Families, Youth, and Transition to Adulthood (FYT); and Integrated Health: Physical, Psychological, and Social Well Being (IH). Students who are granted advanced standing status complete a curriculum that consists of 37 credits and includes 693 hours of field education. This can be accomplished in one year of full-time enrollment or two years of part-time enrollment. While this program is offered at Stony Brook’s NYC campus, students are required to take one of their courses a Stony Brook’s main campus on Long Island in order to comply with New York State Education Department guidelines.

Touro University has an MSW program that is offered at two NYC campus locations, one at the school’s main campus in Manhattan and one at a secondary site in Brooklyn. Both locations have advanced standing tracks for qualified BSW graduates who earned their degree from a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program. The advanced standing program track consists of 32 credits and requires 600 clock hours of field education. It has a Clinical Social Work specialization with three optional concentrations: Aging; Military Social Work; and Mental Illness. Advanced standing students can earn their MSW degree in two semesters of full-time enrollment or in three semesters of part-time study.

Yeshiva University offers an advanced standing MSW program track that requires applicants to hold a degree from a CSWE-accredited BSW program. The program, which is offered by the university’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, allows students to attend all of their classes on campus or opt for a hybrid format that combines campus-based classes with online instruction and that begins with a summer session. The advanced standing program consists of 30 credits, including 600 hours of field education. The program has concentrations in Clinical Social Work, Group Social Work, and Community Social Work with optional certificates in Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC), Gerontology & Palliative Care, and Trauma-Informed Practice. Advanced standing students can complete the program and earn their degree in one year of full-time enrollment.

York College, City University of New York offers a hybrid MSW program at its Queens campus. Students attend on-campus classes one day per week and one Saturday per month with the rest of instruction taking place online. The program has an advanced standing track that is open to applicants who graduated from as CSWE-accredited BSW program within the last five years. Applicants are also expected to have attained a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher on a four-point scale and a GPA of 3.2 or higher in all social work major courses. The advanced standing curriculum consists of 32 credits, including 450 required hours of field education. The program’s curriculum has an Advanced Urban Social Work Practice concentration with a focus on the delivery of social work services in Healthcare Settings. This program is designed to be completed in one year of full-time enrollment.

Advanced Standing Online MSW Programs in New York City

Columbia University offers an online MSW program with an advanced standing track for BSW graduates. To qualify for the Columbia School of Social Work’s (CSSW) advanced standing program, applicants must hold a BSW degree conferred within the last five years by a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program. Students who are granted advanced standing status are typically required to complete 33 credits and 600 hours of field education in order to earn their degree. The online program begins with a summer session intensive and is designed to be completed in two additional semesters by students who are enrolled on a full-time basis. Students have three specialization options: Advanced Clinical Practice; Policy Practice; and Social Enterprise Administration. The online program also has two field-of-practice concentrations: Family, Youth, & Children’s Services; and Health, Mental Health, & Disabilities.

Fordham University has a fully online MSW program with an advanced standing track that is designed for BSW graduates who attended a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program and graduated with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher on a four-point scale. The advanced standing program includes 600 hours of site-based field education, which is incorporated into a 33-credit curriculum that can be completed in as few as eight months by students who enroll on a full-time basis. Part-time students take 16 months to earn their degree. Fordham University’s online MSW program provides students with training and instruction in clinical and macro practice social work through an Advanced Integrative Practice specialization that has four designated concentration options: Individuals and Families; Organizations and Communities; Evaluation; and Policy Practice and Advocacy.

Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work offers an online advanced standing MSW program that has two distinct delivery formats: an asynchronous format in which students can stream online course materials without having to attend virtual class sessions; and a Live Virtual Classroom format in which students attend scheduled online class meetings on a regular basis. Both format options are fully online and have advanced standing tracks for qualified students who hold a BSW degree from a CSWE-accredited undergraduate program. Students are required to complete 30 credits which includes 600 hours of field education. The asynchronous online program has an Advanced Clinical Practice concentration and gives students the option of pursuing certificates in Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) or Gerontology & Palliative Care. Students in the Live Virtual Classroom online program can choose between concentrations in Clinical Social Work, Group Social Work, or Community Practice Social Work with optional certificates in Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC), Gerontology & Palliative Care, or Trauma Informed Practice. Advanced standing students can complete Yeshiva University’s online MSW program in one year of full-time enrollment or two years of part-time enrollment.