Social Work at University of the Virgin Islands

If you are interested in studying social work, you may want to check out the program at University of the Virgin Islands. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UVI is located in Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands and approximately 1,838 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 6 social work majors received their bachelor's degree from UVI.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Social Work section at the bottom of this page.

UVI Social Work Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work

UVI Social Work Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks social work programs across the country. The following shows how UVI performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The social work major at UVI is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Social Work. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools	534
Most Popular Social Work Schools	672

Social Work Student Demographics at UVI

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the social work majors at University of the Virgin Islands.

UVI Social Work Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students earned a bachelor's degree in social work from UVI. About 67% of these graduates were women and the other 33% were men. The typical social work bachelor's degree program is made up of only 12% men. So male students are more repesented at UVI since its program graduates 21% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 38% more racial-ethnic minorities in its social work bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of the Virgin Islands with a bachelor's in social work.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UVI also has a doctoral program available in social work. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Other Public Administration

Careers That Social Work Grads May Go Into

A degree in social work can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VI, the home state for University of the Virgin Islands.

Occupation	Jobs in VI	Average Salary in VI

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Sphilbrick under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.