• Master of Social Work at York University is offered as a 2-year by the School of Social Work.
  • It is an on-campus program offered on a full-time basis.
  • York's School of Social Work is recognized as being one of the most progressive and socially responsive social work programs in Canada.
  • The School is centered around human rights, social justice, and anti-oppression and is committed to teaching from a critical approach that recognizes the ways that individual problems are shaped by social structures that reflect deeply inequitable power relations in society.
  • Students receive a thorough foundation needed to work successfully with diverse populations in a wide variety of social work settings.
  • The program prepares students for careers in child welfare, international work, gerontology, diversity and anti-oppression, family support services, direct practice, community development, an/or social policy and planning, etc. 
  • MSW program places diversity of experience (due to race, class, ability, sexual orientation, age, gender, and religious/spiritual affiliation) as central to understanding how oppression, marginalization, and assistance are constructed for persons in need of social work services.
  • The MSW program consists of 42 credits.