| Ranking | Social Work Schools | Location |
| 1 | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2 | Washington University in St. Louis | St. Louis, MO |
| 3 | University of Chicago | Chicago, IL |
| 4 | University of Washington | Seattle, WA |
| 5 | Columbia University | New York, NY |
| 6 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC |
| 7 | University of California: Berkeley | Berkeley, CA |
| 8 | University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX |
| 9 | Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH |
| 10 | Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA |
| 11 | Fordham University | New York, NY |
| 12 | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA |
| 13 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA |
| 14 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI |
| 15 | Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA |
| 16 | Boston University | Boston, MA |
| 17 | City University of New York: Hunter College | New York, NY |
| 18 | New York University | New York, NY |
| 19 | Smith College | Northampton, MA |
| 20 | University of California: Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA |
| 21 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL |
| 22 | University of Maryland: Baltimore | Baltimore, MD |
| 23 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA |
| 24 | State University of New York at Albany | Albany, NY |
| 25 | University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, IL |
| 26 | Indiana University | Indianapolis, IN |
| 27 | Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI |
| 28 | Ohio State University: Columbus Campus | Columbus, OH |
| 29 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick | New Brunswick, NJ |
| 30 | State University of New York at Buffalo | Buffalo, NY |
| 31 | University of Denver | Denver, CO |
| 32 | University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS |
| 33 | Howard University | Washington, DC |
| 34 | Portland State University | Portland, OR |
| 35 | Simmons College | Boston, MA |
| 36 | University of Minnesota: Twin Cities | St. Paul, MN |
| 37 | Bryn Mawr College | Bryn Mawr, PA |
| 38 | University of Connecticut | West Hartford, CT |
| 39 | University of Georgia | Athens, GA |
| 40 | University of Houston | Houston, TX |
| 41 | University of Louisville | Louisville, KY |
| 42 | University of Tennessee: Knoxville | Knoxville, TN |
| 43 | Wayne State University | Detroit, MI |
| 44 | Adelphi University | Garden City, NY |
| 45 | Arizona State University | Phoenix, AZ |
| 46 | Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL |
| 47 | Loyola University Chicago | Chicago, IL |
| 48 | Tulane University | New Orleans, LA |
| 49 | University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA |
| 50 | University of Kentucky | Lexington, KY |
