Masters/PhD in Social Work or MPH

ramaswami
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:27:46 +0000

I am a clinical psychologist who supervises 7 social workers, MSWs. Couple of them are senior clinical administrators. I am very familiar with this degree because throughout my agency there are social workers sprinkled all over the hierarchy.

Typically, the MSW is a case manager, after some years may rise to be a clinical administrator or even plain administrator depending on the nature of the agency. Some, very few, may end up as CEO of a clinical facility. Almost no one will end up writing grants/policy papers/doing real research.

If you want to do the latter, do MPH or PhD in Public Administration. PhD in social work is useless except in academia. Hope this helps, if you need more info, please PM me. Thanks.