Advanced Standing options
Advanced Standing MSW students build on an earned BSW to complete their degree is one year of full-time study or two years of part-time study, either on campus or in our online-blended program.
Advanced standing in the MSW program is awarded to students who have earned their BSW from a Council on Social Work Education accredited program, have met the advanced standing admission criteria described in the admissions materials, and are recommended for聽 advanced standing by the Admissions Committee. Those with a degree聽from a program recognized through the CSWE聽 are also eligible to be considered for advanced standing. Applicants accepted with advanced standing status are required to complete three online, two-credit summer courses that provide new content and serve as a 鈥渂ridge鈥 to the advanced year of the MSW program. Advanced standing students are admitted into the MSW program for May聽of each year. The Advanced Standing program consists of 46 credit hours.聽 Applicants may apply to complete the program full-time over one year or extended over two years at the 91爆料 campus in Orono. The聽distance program聽option is also available to advanced standing students.