
Bachelor of Social Work (BSW)
Experience Your Future. Our BSW program will empower you to advance human rights and social justice and prepare you for a meaningful career where you can make a difference. As a student you will be engaged in innovative, community-based practicum internships that prepare you to serve individuals, families, groups and communities in need.
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Why UConn BSW?
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Supportive, collaborative community and small classes
Located at UConn Hartford Campus near I-84/I-91 and public transit
BSW graduates may be eligible to earn an MSW degree in less than a year
Practical, hands-on learning through agency-based internships
With a social work degree I have flexibility. I have options. I can go into [a] hospital setting. I can go into prisons. I can go into school. I can work with the youth [at] juvenile detention centers [and] I could work with nonprofit organizations.
Natalie Kildare
'27 BSW