{"id":70103,"date":"2025-01-30T11:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?page_id=70103"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:55:22","slug":"student-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/resources\/current-msw\/student-services\/","title":{"rendered":"MSW Student Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Academic Advising<\/h4>\n<p>Our advisors help you explore your academic interests and personalize your educational program plan to meet your goals. They can also help identify resources for assistance with academic, financial aid, and career planning needs.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/resources\/current-msw\/student-services\/academic-advising\/\">Find Your Program<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Commencement<\/h4>\n<p>Learn more about the BUSSW commencement schedule, diplomas and transcripts, accessibility, transportation, and more.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/resources\/current-msw\/student-services\/graduation\/\">Go to Page<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Course Material Information<\/h4>\n<p>Find resources for purchasing or renting textbooks.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/resources\/current-msw\/student-services\/course-material-information\/\">Go to Page<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Curriculum &amp; Program Plans<\/h4>\n<p>Browse program plans for each of our programs.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/resources\/current-msw\/student-services\/curriculum-program-plans\/\">Go to Page<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Exploring Social Work Competencies<\/h4>\n<p><span>The\u00a0<\/span>Council on Social Work Education<span>, the accrediting agency for social work education in the U.S, requires that all MSW programs develop and implement an explicit curriculum that prepares graduates for practice by mastering a set of nine core competencies. Review the competencies here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/about\/accreditation-competencies\/\">Go to Page<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Registrar<\/h4>\n<p><span>Our Registrar\u2019s Office is responsible for keeping records of classes, grades (including incomplete grades), withdrawals\/leaves of absence, name changes, and status changes, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/resources\/current-msw\/registration-student-accounting\/\">Go to Page<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Study Skills &amp; Supports<\/h4>\n<p><span>Find tips on critical reading and time management. Learn more about academic writing coaches, the BU social work librarian, writing workshop recordings, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/resources\/current-msw\/student-services\/study-skills-supports\/\">Go to Page<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Meet the Student Services Team<\/h4>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/degree-program\/msw\/meet-the-student-services-team\/\">Go to Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/resources\/\" class=\"cta-button\">Back to Student Resources<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Advising Our advisors help you explore your academic interests and personalize your educational program plan to meet your goals. They can also help identify resources for assistance with academic, financial aid, and career planning needs. Find Your Program Commencement Learn more about the BUSSW commencement schedule, diplomas and transcripts, accessibility, transportation, and more. Go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19132,"featured_media":0,"parent":68344,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70103"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81131,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70103\/revisions\/81131"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}