"Social work" is usually preferred to "socialwork". You may want to confirm this by typing both spellings into Google.com and noting that "social work" yields more hits than "socialwork". (And of course, you'll get even fewer hits if you use a misspelling like "socailwork" or "socail work", but there are just enough bad spellers out there to yield a few hits for each of those spellings!

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• Social Work Graduate School: How to Get In (Home)
• What Social Workers Do
• General Advice on Applying to Social Work Graduate Programs
• About the Masters in Social Work (or MSW)
• About the Doctorate in Social Work (or DSW or PhD)
• The 7 Deadly Sins of Applying to Graduate School
• About Taking the Graduate Record Examination (or GRE)
• About Writing Your Graduate School Application Essay
• About Getting Suitable Experience Before you Apply
• Graduate School Rankings and Other Links for Social Work Applicants