Fordham University

For all the tens of thousands of dollars you spend to attend this program, you would think that their technology, curriculum, or internship opportunities would justify the decades I will be spending with the meager social work salary (even with a masters) paying off these student loans. The instructors, all adjunct professors who already work full-time jobs during the day in addition to teaching, did the best they could but ultimately never really challenged or prepared students for the field. The... Read More internship "opportunities" were abysmal, and every single student I talked to complained about the same things: not getting enough experience, not having enough supervision, having to work for FREE in addition to paying for tuition credits even though unpaid labor is (or should be) the antithesis to what social work stands for. These sorts of things aren't even a Fordham-specific problem per say, as friends I've spoken with across the country have had the same issues with their MSW programs, but it is laughable to think that I needed to pay for this piece of paper just so I could continue doing and growing in the work I had already been doing for 10 years, where I learned far more by experience than in these classrooms. Fordham is just another part of the systemic issues with social work, except they are parading around as a program focused on dismantling the harms of this field. If you can go somewhere cheaper, anywhere really, you will probably get the same education.