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Social Work
Supporting people and communities through hardship: families, youth, addiction, migration.
Who it suits
SEI
- Helper: teaching, caring, supporting people
- Persuader: leading, selling, starting things
- Thinker: analysing, researching, figuring out why
Students here tend to be a bit more warm, outgoing than average.
Builds on
Philosophy, psychology & social studies ●●●Native language & literature ●●
Typically offers
Job security · Helping people · Impact on society or the planet
Where it leads
Social worker · Youth worker · Case manager · Community organiser
US median earnings, one year after a bachelor’s
$33,281
College Scorecard, US Department of Education
2,412 programmes tracked
🇫🇷 France 1,086🇺🇸 United States 670🇩🇪 Germany 418🇦🇺 Australia 125🇫🇮 Finland 59🇦🇹 Austria 31🇨🇭 Switzerland 23
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