{"id":19507,"date":"2025-04-01T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=19507"},"modified":"2025-04-01T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:27:08","slug":"elizabethtown-college-partners-with-saint-josephs-university-to-offer-master-of-social-work-pathway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/elizabethtown-college-partners-with-saint-josephs-university-to-offer-master-of-social-work-pathway\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Partners with Saint Joseph\u2019s University to Offer Master of Social Work Pathway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, Elizabethtown College partnered with Saint Joseph\u2019s University to offer a 4+1 degree program that allows qualified <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/schools\/school-of-public-service\/social-work\/index.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Etown Social Work<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> students automatic acceptance to St. Joseph\u2019s University online <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sju.edu\/degree-programs\/social-work-msw\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Master of Social Work (MSW) program.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After completing core requirements and earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in Social Work at Etown, students who maintain a 3.2 GPA will be granted admission into the MSW program. Additionally, students who maintain a 3.0 in the program will receive a 10% tuition discount.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;We are excited to partner with St. Joseph\u2019s University to offer our students an affordable pathway to advance their degrees through its outstanding MSW program,&#8221; Elizabethtown College Social Work Program Director James Corbin said. \u201cThis partnership reflects both institutions&#8217; shared commitment to preparing job-ready graduates who are equipped to contribute to the world beyond themselves.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Social Work majors at Etown receive significant work in the field during their undergraduate studies, graduating with more than 700 hours of field work experience, far exceeding the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accreditation requirements that mandate 400 hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a result, Etown Social Work students have high levels of success in graduate school and the job market, with 94% of seniors accepted to graduate school or employed within one month of graduation in 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to a tuition discount for the MSW program, Etown students can also receive a 10% discount for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sju.edu\/degree-programs\/criminal-justice-ms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">M.S. in Criminal Justice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sju.edu\/degree-programs\/writing-studies-ma\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">M.A. in Writing Studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sju.edu\/degree-programs\/food-marketing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MBA\/M.S. in Food Marketing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> programs at St. Joseph\u2019s University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/schools\/school-of-public-service\/social-work\/index.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discover more about studying Social Work at Elizabethtown College<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Elizabethtown College partnered with Saint Joseph\u2019s University to offer a 4+1 degree program that allows qualified Etown Social Work students automatic acceptance to St. Joseph\u2019s University online Master of Social Work (MSW) program.\u00a0 After completing core requirements and earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in Social Work at Etown, students who maintain a 3.2 GPA will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":19508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[197,1350,2496,103],"class_list":["post-19507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-msw","tag-social-work","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19509,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507\/revisions\/19509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}