Doctor of Social Work

Highest level of qualification available in social work. The DSW provides a high-level professional development pathway to develop as advanced practitioners, practice leaders, specialist practitioners, managers and advisors as well as social work trainers and educators.

With a tradition of academic excellence, Massey University is the nearest thing New Zealand has to a national university. It has nearly 18,000 students enrolled on three main campuses, with approximately 17,000 national and worldwide distance learning (extramural) students.