Offered by University of Victoria in Victoria, Canada, Social Work Advanced: Master's Degree (MSWA) is a master's degree in Social Work programme. The programme is delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 2,857 per semester (CAD 2,265 per semester for local students).
Designed for practitioners who already hold a Bachelor of Social Work and at least 3,000 hours of human-services experience, this advanced MSW begins with an on-campus introduction before shifting to distance education for the remainder of a three-to-five-year program. Students complete either a thesis or a 450-hour advanced practicum, and coursework is built around decolonizing, Indigenous-focused, anti-racist, feminist, and anti-oppressive approaches to critical social work practice. Applicants submit an updated CV, a statement of intent, an experience summary form, and the names of two academic or professional references, alongside post-secondary transcripts, with September-entry applications due November 30. The 450-hour advanced practicum option runs alongside coursework for students who choose it instead of a thesis, and the program continues to centre socially-just, decolonizing approaches to practice throughout both completion routes.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The School of Social Work's Advanced MSW requires applicants to hold a Bachelor of Social Work and a minimum of 3,000 hours of human services experience as of the application deadline, together with an updated CV, a statement of intent, an experience summary, two academic or professional references and transcripts. The program page does not restate the Faculty of Graduate Studies' general 'B'-average benchmark separately from the BSW requirement. English proficiency follows UVic's institution-wide scale: IELTS Academic overall 6.5 with no band under 6.0, or TOEFL iBT overall 4.5 with no section under 4.0 for tests taken after 21 January 2026 (90 overall/20 per section on tests taken before that date); PTE Academic, CAEL, Cambridge C1 Advanced/C2 Proficiency and the Michigan English Test are also accepted, individual departments may set higher minimums, and scores cannot be more than two years old.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Not published for September 2027 entry: the page states only that applications open early October 2026 and gives no closing date for that intake; the only concrete deadline shown on the page belongs to an earlier, now-closed intake.
