Advanced Standing Master of Social Work (MSW) Programs Online

Adelphi University offers an online MSW degree with three paths: Traditional, MSW for Human Service Professionals and Advanced Standing.

The CSWE-accredited, part-time program features theoretical study and real-world training, preparing students to excel as social workers.

Boise State University's (BSU) offers an online MSW program with a concentration in Advanced Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families.

Classes are delivered mainly asynchronously, but some instructors conduct synchronous classes through Blackboard Learn, which enables students to interact with faculty and their peers in real-time.

The online MSW program at Boston University is offered part-time with majors in Clinical or Macro Practice and 3 track options, ensuring that each student's graduate program is tailored to meet each student's needs.

BUSSW's program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), and enables students who do not live near the BUSSW campus or who have time constraints that prevent them from traveling to classes to earn their MSW from an internationally recognized private research university.

Campbellsville University offers an entirely online MSW program and with coursework rooted in ethical and Christian ideals.

Classes are held entirely online, though students must fulfill a field work requirement through a relevant practicum experience, 450 for advanced standing. The Advanced Standing track is designed for students who have already completed a BSW from a CSWE accredited program (within the last 7 years).

Capella University offers an online advanced standing program that helps students gain leadership skills to prepare for a general or clinical social work practice

Capella's licensure team offers support to graduates through the the license application process.

Columbia University offers an online Master's of Science in Social Work (MSSW) for advanced standing students.

The program has four concentration options: Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice, Advanced Generalist Practice, Social Enterprise Administration, and Policy Practice.

Delaware State University (DESU) offers an entirely online MSW program focused on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.

The Advanced Standing online MSW track is composed of 30 credits, broken down into 24 credits of academic classes and 6 credits of field practicum.

Edinboro University offers both traditional and advanced standing online MSW programs in a full-time format.

Edinboro’s online MSW program has a family social work practice focus; however, students are prepared to work in a variety of settings as the courses teach a generalist approach and students are allowed to work in several different types of agencies for their field education requirements.

Florida State University offers an online MSW program for advanced standing students.

The advanced standing program also accepts transfer students who have completed the first year of a traditional MSW program including a generalist field placement.

Humboldt State University offers an advanced standing online MSW programs that focuses on advanced generalist practice in rural and Native American communities.

At this time, Humboldt State only offers a part-time curriculum that generally requires students to study 20 to 25 hours per week.

Indiana University offers part-time online MSW programs for advanced standing students. The MSW direct program is one of the few online MSW programs that does not use a cohort model.

This is ideal for students who may not be able to take classes every semester, but want to pursue a MSW online. The program must be completed within five years.

Louisiana State University (LSU) offers an online MSW program with a concentration in Advanced Direct Social Work Practice.

The program is divided into 30 credits of foundation courses and 30 credits of advanced coursework. LSU offers a 33-credit advanced standing track that allows students who have earned a BSW from a CSWE-accredited program to earn their MSW in one full year of study.

Metropolitan State University offers an online MSW program that educates aspiring social workers to serve individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations in a multicultural and global society.

MSW students can choose from two concentrations: individuals and families, or leadership and management. The MSW program is available in both fully online and hybrid formats.

Morgan State University's online MSW focuses on issues of poverty and socioeconomic disadvantage, interpersonal and community violence, substance abuse and mental health problems, social injustice and discrimination.

Advanced standing applicants must have completed a BSW within the past five years

Ohio State University's online MSW program prepares students to practice in mental health, substance abuse, and child and youth services.

Advanced standing students must have completed a BSW within the last five years.

Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) currently offers a CSWE-accredited online MSW program through its Worden School of Social Service.

OLLU’s program is unique in that it is one of only three MSW programs in the United States that has an emphasis on serving the Hispanic community.

Portland State University (PSU) offers an online MSW program focused on Practice and Leadership with Communities and Organizations (or) Health Across the Lifespan in a part-time format.

PSU's online MSW prepares students for careers in community leadership, advocacy, policy practice, and human services administration and/or integrated health and advanced practice within health care and aging settings.

Rutgers University offers an online MSW program with a Clinical Social Work concentration. The program includes asynchronous instruction, where students can complete their assignments and view lecture materials at their leisure.

Like all MSW programs, Rutgers’ online MSW program requires its students to complete field education at a local social services agency.

Samford University's online MSW offers a Christian learning community that prepares students for advanced social work practice.

Applicants must have completd a BSW from a CSWE-accredited university.

Texas A&M University online MSW prograam prepares students for LMSW practice.

Other potential careers include clinical practitioner, program manager, researcher, administrator, and more.

Texas State University San Marcos offers an online MSW program with a concentration in Administrative Leadership and uses curriculum and syllabi as Texas State's on-campus MSW program.

The advanced standing track requires students to have earned a bachelor of social work from a CSWE accredited undergraduate program.

The Catholic University of America's (CUA) offers an online MSW program with a concentration in clinical social work.

This program trains students for careers in mental health counseling and therapy, school social work, clinical work with families and children, community-based services for the elderly, and other fields that involve working closely with clients to help them manage social, mental, and emotional challenges.

Tulane University's online MSW program prepares students for relationship-centered clinicaal-community practice.

Applicants must have earned a BSW within the the past five years to apply to the advanced standing program.

The University of Alaska at Anchorage’s (UAA) School of Social Work offers an online MSW program with an Advanced Generalist concentration.

While all courses are delivered online, students must travel to their field placements, and also attend campus intensives.

The University of Arkansas’ offers an online MSW program that prepares students for supervisory positions and leadership roles. U of A’s online MSW program includes a concentration in Multi-Systems Life Course.

Applicants must have obtained a bachelor’s degree from a CSWE-accredited social work program or a program recognized through CSWE’s International Social Work Degree Recognition and Evaluation Service.

University at Buffalo (SUNY) offers an online MSW program with a concentration in evidence-based practice with trauma-informed and human rights perspectives.

Students can design their advanced year of study based on their academic and professional goals. All foundation courses are delivered online, and many advanced courses are also offered online.

The University of Central Florida's offers a part-time advanced standing online MSW program with concentrations in Behavioral Health and Child Welfare Services.

The University of Central Florida’s School of Social Work is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and UCF is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

The University of Houston offers an online MSW program with a concentration in clinical practice: health and behavioral health.

This part-time program has synchronous and asynchronous courses. Students who are accepted into advanced standing are required to complete 500 hours of field work prior to graduation.

Students need to complete 48 hours of coursework for the Advanced Standing track. This track is designed for those who have a BSW from a CSWE-accredited social work degree program.

UI used a cohort model of approximately 25 students. Students living in the same area meet locally twice a year to work with local social workers.

University of Kentucky's online MSW program prepares students to provide social work services to individuals as well as entire systems.

Candidates can pursue a clinical practice with adolescents, non-profit development in rural communities, and more.

University of Louisville's online MSW program prepares students to promote social justice and be positive change agents in their community

Students can choose from specializations including Alcohol and Drug Counseling, Gerontology, Mental Health, Military Social Work or Psychosocial Oncology.

Students must reside within Missouri and contiguous states (Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois) to be eligible for the Universtiy of Missouri's online MSW program.

Course topics include human behavior and psychopathology and research in social work.

The University of Nevada offers an online MSW program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) structured around the Advanced Generalist clinical concentration.

Those applying to the advanced standing track must hold a bachelor's degree in social work from an undergraduate program accredited by CSWE.

The University of New England's (UNE) offers an online Master of Social Work program with tracks for standing students and advanced standing students.

The advanced standing program also has an accelerated option that can be completed in about 16 months and a part-time option that can be completed in about two years.

The curriculum for UND’s online MSW programs is equivalent to that of their on-campus MSW program, and features live, synchronous web classes.

Advanced standing students must attend an on-campus intensive. The on-campus intensives involve lab experiences and in-person interactions with peers and program faculty.

The University of Northern Iowa trauma-informed online MSW program prepares students for advanced clinical practice.

Courses are deliered online via interactive video conferencing.

University of South Florida's online Master of Social Work program offers a live online classroom experience. Advanced standing, full-time students can expect to complete this 35 credit hour program in three semesters. Part-time students can expect to complete the program in five semesters.

Both part-time and full-time students are required to complete 8 credits of supervised field experience.

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville's offers a part-time and full-time advanced standing online Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) program, which is equivalent to an MSW.

Students choose between two concentrations: Evidence Based Interpersonal Practice, which is a clinical social work program, and Management, Leadership and Community Practice, which is a macro social work program.

The University of Texas offers an online MSW program with three specialty areas: Direct Practice with Children and Families, Direct Practice in Mental Health and Substance Abuse, and Direct Practice in Aging.

Students must be a Texas resident currently living in Texas to be eligible for this program.

The University of Texas of the Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) offers an entirely online Advanced Standing MSW program with concentrations in Administration and Community Practice and Direct Practice with Latino Individuals, Families and Groups.

As the second largest Hispanic-serving institution in the nation, UTRGV’s MSW coursework is uniquely designed to equip students with the skills to work with Latino populations.

West Virginia's online MSW program provides an integrative approach where students prepare for both direct practice and administrative roles.

Students must haave received a BSW from a CSWE-accredited program within the last eight years.

WKU’s program focuses on many areas – small cities, towns, and very rural communities. The primary focus is the rural areas making up most of Kentucky.

Students must have a BSW within the last seven years as well as a 3.0 GPA for the last 60 credits from a CSWE-accredited program.

Western New Mexico University offers an online MSW program with an advanced generalist concentration. Students can take electives in specialized areas such as child welfare, gerontology, school social work, and military social work.

WNMU may prepare students to support individuals, groups, families, and organizations, and to assume leadership roles within their communities.

Widener University offers an online MSW program that is a social justice oriented clinical program that focuses on trauma and is specifically designed to give students an understanding of how various forms of trauma are at the root of many of the mental, emotional, and social issues that individuals face across the lifespan.

As a result, trauma and its impact on the individual is a theme that overlays the coursework within the program.

Winthrop University's online MSW program is focused on empowerment practice to proote well-being and social justice.

The university provides dedicated field placement assistance.

Yeshiva University's online MSW program prepares students for advanced clinical practice with individuals and families, group work and community practice.

Class sizes are small and each student has a dedicated faculty advisor.