2025 Best Social Work Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

an associate degree in social work is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #66 out of 328 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Social Work Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 113 associate degrees in social work during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Social Work School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of social work for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to social work students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of social work students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for social work to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized social work related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for social work students working on their associate degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Social Work Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Social Work in Pennsylvania

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in social work.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for an Associate in Social Work

1

Harrisburg Area Community College
Harrisburg, PA

27 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Harrisburg Area Community College if you wish to pursue an associate degree in social work. HACC is a fairly large public college located in the small city of Harrisburg.More information about a associate in social work from Harrisburg Area Community College

2

Community College of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, PA

17 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Community College of Allegheny County if you want to pursue an associate degree in social work. CCAC is a fairly large public college located in the city of Pittsburgh.More information about a associate in social work from Community College of Allegheny County

3

Northampton County Area Community College
Bethlehem, PA

21 Annual Graduates

Northampton County Area Community College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in social work. Located in the large suburb of Bethlehem, Northampton Community College is a public college with a medium-sized student population.More information about a associate in social work from Northampton County Area Community College

Best Social Work Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Social Work Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	196	4
New Jersey	137	175
Maryland	126	9

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Social Work Related Rankings by Major

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Social Work Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Social Work	107
Other Social Work	6

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Army Medicine. More about our data sources and methodologies.