Accreditation

Rowan University's Bachelor of Social Work Program is currently in pre-candidacy for accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Board of Accreditation (BOA).

Pre-candidacy status indicates that it submitted an application to be reviewed for candidacy and
received approval of its Benchmark 1 from CSWE Accreditation Staff to move forward for a
candidacy review within 1-year. A program that has attained pre-candidacy status has not yet
been reviewed by the BOA nor verified to be compliant with the accreditation standards.

Students that are admitted to pre-candidate programs in the fall (or later) of the academic year in
which the program is granted candidacy status will be retroactively recognized as graduates from
a CSWE-BOA accredited program as long as the program attains initial accreditation. Candidacy
is typically a 3-year process and attaining pre-candidacy does not guarantee that a program will
eventually attain candidacy and initial accreditation.

Pre-candidacy applies to all program options, which include locations and delivery methods.
Accreditation provides reasonable assurance about the quality of the program and the
competence of students graduating from the program.
Review our program’s pre-candidacy status in CSWE’s CSWE Program Directory. For more
information about social work accreditation, contact CSWE’s Department of Social Work
Accreditation.