Masters in Social Work Courses (MSW) |Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts & Science (KCLAS)

Learn Social Work, Lead Communities and Build Solutions.

MSW at KCLAS is a two-year postgraduate degree affiliated to Bharathiar University, one of Tamil Nadu’s leading state universities. The programme integrates academic rigour with intensive field-based learning across all four semesters, preparing graduates for impactful professional practice in social welfare, community development, healthcare, and social justice sectors.

Specialisation

Community Development: Designed for students aspiring to work in rural and urban development, livelihoods, governance, public systems, and community-based social change initiatives. 

Medical and Psychiatric Social Work: Designed for students seeking professional practice in healthcare institutions, mental health services, rehabilitation settings, and clinical social work environments. 

Why KCLAS

KCLAS is part of Kumaraguru Institutions, a 150-acre campus in Coimbatore with established ties to overseas universities and access to over 70 micro-credentials through KCLAS Edge+. Students work alongside national and international practitioners, field organisations, and government bodies throughout the programme. Faculty members at KCLAS-MSW have worked across development projects, healthcare institutions, counselling, human rights, and grassroots community interventions, enabling students to learn social work through real-world practice and interdisciplinary perspectives. With expertise spanning community health and development, child rights, public systems strengthening, research, and sustainable development, the faculty, mentor the students beyond classrooms through fieldwork, internships, and research projects. 

The REACT Fellowship 

This MSW has something no other MSW in India offers.  A Fellowship within your MSW Degree

REACT is a Social Innovation Fellowship embedded inside the Community Development , Medical & Psychiatric Social Work specialisation of MSW at KCLAS. Your mandatory concurrent field work across all four semesters becomes a structured venture-building track. No additional years. No extra fees. The same MSW degree — with a Diploma in Social Innovation added, and a registered venture you own before you graduate.    Fellows work with national and international mentors, STEM innovation teams, and real community partners throughout the two years. Thirty seats. Selective entry. 

Three output cards:

A publication-ready research paper reviewed by an external academic.
A working product built and tested in the community you spent two years understanding.
A registered venture – commercial, social, or civic-that you own before you graduate.

 The 2026 batch is open.

Explore MSW with REACT 

Where graduates go

 MSW graduates from KCLAS work as Social Entrepreneurs, Managers, Project Managers in NGOs, CSR Analysts, Social Impact Analysts, Welfare officers, Medical Social workers, Psychiatric Social workers, School Social workers, Counsellors, Community health practitioners, Academicians, Training and research officers.  From the batches 2021–2025, 56/67 MSW students have been placed across diverse sectors including corporate/ IT, healthcare, education, hospitality, NGOs, and development organisations while others are into their higher studies, entrepreneurship, family businesses, government examination preparation, and international education opportunities including admission to Oxford Brookes University. 

Placements: Infosys, KGiSL, ZF Wind Power, Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd, Taj Hotels, Marriott International, Magic Bus, Greenpeace, Youth4Jobs, Learning Links Foundation, The Banyan, Butterfly, Mazhilvi Foundation, Appteq Pvt. Ltd., Crio.DO, Matix Technologies, SAN Engineering Solutions, JAY JAY Mills, St. John Hospitals-Bangalore, SRV School, IPS School, Ganga hospitals and RR Housing Pvt. Ltd. 

We welcome you to join us! Admissions Open for 2026

Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts & Science (KCLAS) is a premier college in South India and we offer an education that broadens the mind and “liberal” thinking that encourages the questioning of assumptions and reliance on facts that can be interpreted differently through different lenses. We open the doors, enabling the mind to go wherever it wants in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. We seek students and faculty who are intellectually curious, independent learners and value honesty, collaboration, and are passionate about making a difference. We embrace and celebrate the beauty in differences and use these opportunities to grow, evolve and learn. KCLAS encourages you to question critically, think logically, communicate clearly, act creatively, and live ethically!.

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