Social Work at Columbia

We make social work training relevant. Our students build valuable skill sets to bring out into the world and utilize in the field — whether they decide to couple their training with a background in journalism and report on child advocacy groups, counsel low-income, elderly residents, or head an organization to determine solutions for at-risk youth. Our students are problem solvers.

The social work master’s and doctoral programs draw on the resources of a major research university, giving students access to the best thinking across academic boundaries. Columbia’s faculty is justly renowned for its cutting-edge research, with 64 Nobel Prize winners as members. Our interdisciplinary programs allow students to move at their own pace while mapping out their social work curriculum, and during their second year, students choose their method concentration, field of practice, and field placement. Dual degrees, minors, and other innovative academic choices help create new options for students whose goals and interests are interdisciplinary and not easily fit into a single degree program.

Our 11-story state-of-the-art facility is technologically advanced with audio-visual and computer equipment, a 50-seat computer lab, a 7,000 square-foot library, and breakout/role play rooms.

As part of New York City’s only Ivy League university, our students are at the center of a historic and intellectually exciting academic community.