New Hampshire·Community and Social Service Occupations·SOC 21-1021

Best Child programs in New Hampshire, ranked by enrollment

Provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the family well-being and the academic functioning of children.

3 schools in New Hampshire run programs that feed this job, graduating 139 people a year. The job pays a median of $71,010 in New Hampshire across about 1,700 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledCase ManagerSchool Social WorkerFamily Service WorkerFamily Protection SpecialistCaseworkerCase WorkerGroup WorkerSocial Worker
Graduates / yr
139
in New Hampshire
Median pay · New Hampshire
$71,010
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
1,700
people employed
Schools
3
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
69%
across those schools
Median net price
$29,600
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in New Hampshire that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in New Hampshire that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in New Hampshire (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own New Hampshire page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1139
100.0%
3$37,264$26,140

Top 3 schools in New Hampshire

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 2 of the 3 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, NH Public · 1 feeder programs
115Social Work$37,39576%88%
2Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH Public · 1 feeder programs
19Social Work$41,45152%88%
3Saint Anselm College
Manchester, NH Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
5Social Work80%$29,60078%

All 3 schools in New Hampshire

Every school in New Hampshire with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in New Hampshire that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
University of New Hampshire - Main CampusDurhamPublic1151
Plymouth State UniversityPlymouthPublic191
Saint Anselm CollegeManchesterPrivate not-for-profit51

What child, family, and school social workers earn in New Hampshire

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in New Hampshire
$71,010
Mean annual
$70,740
Jobs in state
1,700
What the range looks like
10th pct$41,150Median$71,01090th pct$101,570
Versus the national median
+19.2%

U.S. median $59,550. New Hampshire pays above the national figure.

Job concentration
0.99×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Metro areas in New Hampshire

Manchester-Nashua, NH
$62,720median
610 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+3.4%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
35,100
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
13,400
399,900 → 413,300
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Child, Family, and School Social Workers page.

How to become a Child

Job zone 4 of 5 · SVP 7.0 to < 8.0
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Top skills

Active ListeningSpeakingCritical ThinkingReading ComprehensionMonitoringWriting

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in New Hampshire

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 8 majors mapped to Child, Family, and School Social Workers6 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 42.2703Developmental and Child Psychology
  • 42.2710Developmental and Adolescent Psychology(no graduates reported)
  • 43.0110Juvenile Corrections
  • 44.0701Social Work
  • 44.0702Youth Services/Administration
  • 44.0703Forensic Social Work
  • 44.0799Social Work, Other
  • 51.1510Infant/Toddler Mental Health Services(no graduates reported)

Common questions

Answers for people weighing child, family, and school social workers programs in New Hampshire.

What degree do you need to become a Child?+

Bachelor's degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Social Work, which awarded 139 degrees in New Hampshire in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Child?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Social Work. Together they graduate about 139 people a year in New Hampshire.

How much do child, family, and school social workers earn in New Hampshire?+

The median is $71,010 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 19.2% above the U.S. median of $59,550. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for child, family, and school social workers growing?+

BLS projects a +3.4% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 35,100 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in New Hampshire?+

3 institutions in New Hampshire reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do child, family, and school social workers work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Case Manager, School Social Worker, Family Service Worker, Family Protection Specialist among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 21-1021.

Child, Family, and School Social Workers in other statesNew YorkCaliforniaTexasMinnesotaIllinoisMichiganOhioKentucky
Programs in New HampshireSocial Work

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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