About · 2027 Edition
About MSWUtah.com
An independent census of Utah's MSW programs — from Salt Lake City to St. George — built format-first: every delivery claim, credit total, and accreditation fact verified against published university sources, with every gap labeled.
Why Utah gets its own census
Utah doesn't have a cost-comparable MSW market — it has four accredited programs and not one published program-level tuition rate. So MSWUtah.com works the axis that actually separates the field: format. The University of Utah confirms campus, fully online, and hybrid delivery. Utah State runs its MSW across 15+ statewide campuses from Logan. Utah Valley runs a hybrid cohort around Friday in-person sessions in Orem. BYU runs an intensive 20-month campus cohort in Provo. Four programs, four ways to study — that is the real Utah decision.
The 2027 edition covers 4 verified Utah MSW programs, all fully CSWE-accredited. The backbone of the census is the published-input rule — a fact appears only when the university has published it outright: credit totals from catalogs and handbooks, delivery modes from program pages, field hours from field manuals. Where inputs were missing — every tuition rate, USU's advanced standing credit total — we label the gap instead of filling it in.
Who does the counting
Nathaniel Brooks is a higher-education research analyst whose work focuses on how graduate programs are actually delivered — formats, pacing, and field structures — rather than how they market themselves. For this Utah census he verifies every program's delivery claims, credit totals, and accreditation evidence against primary sources, from the U's official MSW handbook to UVU's catalog, and keeps the verification log for each edition.
How this site stays straight
No university owns, funds, or advertises on this site. Programs cannot pay for a better rank or a softer write-up — the same published-input rule applies to every program, from the Salt Lake City flagship to the Provo private nonprofit, and the methodology is public.
If you spot a stale fact, a new accreditation decision, or a dead source link — say so. Corrections are checked against primary sources and logged in the verification record.