12 monthsProgramme duration
41,594 NZDTuition Fee/year
04 Jul, 2025Application Deadline
Mar, JulStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Social Work
Degree
MSW
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
The Master of Social Work prepares you for advanced professional responsibility in social work.
You will learn advanced approaches and interventions in social work practice, and develop knowledge, skills and experience in critiquing and undertaking social work research to enhance your practice.
The programme enables social work practitioners to undertake further study in subjects related to their professional practice and then undertake research in an area of special interest.
This postgraduate programme is for qualified social workers. If you are looking for a postgraduate programme to become a qualified social worker see: Master of Social Work (Professional).
Programme overview
Main Subject
Social Work
Degree
MSW
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
The Master of Social Work prepares you for advanced professional responsibility in social work.
You will learn advanced approaches and interventions in social work practice, and develop knowledge, skills and experience in critiquing and undertaking social work research to enhance your practice.
The programme enables social work practitioners to undertake further study in subjects related to their professional practice and then undertake research in an area of special interest.
This postgraduate programme is for qualified social workers. If you are looking for a postgraduate programme to become a qualified social worker see: Master of Social Work (Professional).
Admission Requirements
You must have completed a Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) with a GPA of 5.0 in at least 90 points of the most advanced courses taken.
Alternatively, you must have completed:
- a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Supervision with a GPA of 5.0 and hold a qualification in social work
- a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences (Social Work) or Postgraduate Diploma in Social Work with a GPA of 5.0.
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