Brown School of Social Work

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work more commonly known as the Brown School of Social Work is one of the world's leading schools for the training of social workers, ranking 2nd (US News)and 9th (Gourman Report). As one of the academic units of Washington University, the Brown School was founded in 1925 as the department of social work, and became an endowed school in 1945. With one of the few social work post doctoral fellowships in the nation, and partnerships with the Open Society Institute, and the headquarters of the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and the Alliance for Building Capacity, the Brown School is an international research center. The Brown School offers a two year M.S.W. as well as the Ph.D.