Hello!

This is a great field for study and a respectable career choice. M.A. in Social work also known as Masters in social work (MSW) is offered by many government universities like

1. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
2. Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi
3. Delhi University, Delhi
4. University of Mysore, Karnataka
5. Tata Institute Of Social Sciences, Mumbai

To pursue master's, bachelor's degree is must. For MSW one must have a bachelor's degree in any stream. There are entrance tests conducted by the universities for admission in this course. To prepare for that you must know the topics from which questions are generally asked, these are

• General knowledge
• Reasoning Ability
• Social work
• Verbal Ability
• Numeric Ability ( in some entrance exams; basically mathematics till 10th standard)

The whole syllabus includes parts of general knowledge for which there are many books to refer to as well as newspaper reading is very beneficial, then parts of social work which majorly contains sociology, reasoning and numeric abilities can be slight difficult but if practiced everyday for 2 hours they can be the scoring factors, and then is the verbal ability which is not a hard nut to crack. The preparation time depends on aspirants' abilities to grasp but 6 months are enough to get through the exams.

All the best!