Choosing between graduate schools

juillet
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 03:26:36 +0000

As was already mentioned, social workers do not make the kinds of salaries necessary to repay the kind of debt that you will go into for NYU. Social workers make a median salary of about $47,000 a year, with even the 90th percentile of social workers earning about $79,000. While that’s enough to live a middle-class lifestyle, it’s not enough to repay $60-80K in debt. $34K is a much more comfortable debt load for a future social worker.

While your environment does have some impact on your mood and behavior, if you’re feeling depressed and lonely likely a change of scenery alone won’t solve the problem. Besides that, it may be even more depressing if in 2-3 years you are struggling to afford debt payments! If you would like to move to New York, why not consider completing your MSW at Rutgers and then searching for employment in the city for after you graduate? If a lot of your good friends live in New York, you can easily take the NJ Transit train from New Brunswick into the city a couple times a month to hang out.