Recommendations for least expensive online MSW?

[studyingfortests]

The problem is, CSWE has a strong policy on unconditional acceptance of all people, which tends to clash with strong Christian faith, and a couple of religious schools have abandoned their MSW programs rather than agree to CSWE's policies on acceptance. 

That's quite conditional. CSWE rejects faith groups (millions of peeople) in order to "unconditionally accept all people." Interesting approach. I guess it's not "all people" that they are accomodating. Why not just come out and say that openly?

Actually, not at all. There are *many* faith-centered schools with CSWE-accredited programs that have built acceptance and tolerance into their policies (at least for their MSW programs) in order to attain CSWE accreidtation. CSWE has no dog in the race as far as religion, and there's a pretty large % of social workers who are devout Christians (or other faiths).  The difference is, a social worker (or a school that's CSWE accredited) has simply made a commitment not to discriminate against others.

The interesting thing with the school in question (can't remember it's name, but I think it was in Philly) is that their powers-that-be didn't even want to engage with CSWE to see how they could come to mutually agreeable terms. And nothing had changed in CSWE's policies.  Reading between the lines in the various sources that were reporting about it, I got the distinct sense that somebody at the school got butthurt that the CSWE was inquiring about a potential concern, and took his ball and went home.  A lot of students were left in the lurch as a result. I think that says a lot about that school's commitment to integrity and moral behavior.

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I would definitely recommend looking into Chamberlain. They have a $12,510 grant if your undergrad GPA is 2.5+

https://www.chamberlain.edu/academics/on...ocial-work

I actually applied & enrolled but decided to withdraw after a change of mind with career choice.

Edit: I believe they’re more than halfway through their CSWE candidacy stage & plan to become accredited next year.

This looks really attractive with the $12K grant!  It's still quite a bit more than some of the CA state schools, but it seems to have a lot of flexibility and I like the tracks they offer. Thanks!