Gatekeeping and the process of assessing student suitability for social work education is increasingly being impacted by the rapid growth of online programs. It remains unclear if suitability concerns within social work programs are operationalized differently between traditional and online/hybrid programs. This quantitative study used previously established student suitability constructs of social consciousness, ethical suitability, practice suitability, and personal suitability to examine attitudes of social work educators and administrators regarding gatekeeping in their respective online/hybrid and traditional social work programs. The study utilized a multivariate multilevel regression analysis to investigate the effect of participant background characteristics regarding perceived emphasis on gatekeeping within participant's own programs. Findings showed a large discrepancy between what was important to participants and what was perceived to be emphasized in their respective programs regarding suitability and gatekeeping. This study suggests that social work faculty and administrators need to pay particular attention to uneven gatekeeping practices related to technological and pedagogical shifts in the evolving social work education landscape.