Through the latest knowledge and value-based education, MSW program intends to provide a Masters Degree by training a core group of professionals to enhance one of the main missions of AMMA, the founder of Amrita University, in providing humanitarian and charitable services to people around the world.

The mission of the Master of Social Work (MSW) program is to prepare students for specialized, advanced level, accountable, and autonomous practice with oppressed, at-risk, vulnerable and general populations. The program provides a rigorous intellectual base, an opportunity for effective skill development, and an educational perspective that views human diversity as desirable and enriching to society. Students are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and values appropriate to the social work profession, the conceptual base of professional social work, the broad-based research strategies of the field, and the various social work roles and intervention strategies used in social work practice.

Each student must complete a minimum of 60 graduate credits in the required and elective courses in social work.

Amrita has been in a long standing co-operation with foreign universities, organizations and related instituions. International partnership involve programs in education and research suited to the national as well as international development. These innovative programs will prepare the students to become advocates for social equality and social justice.

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