2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Community Organization Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 3,114 people earned their degree in community organization and advocacy, making the major the 243rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 538 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality community organization and advocacy programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the community organization and advocacy program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Community Organization Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Community Organization Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Community Organization Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$30,083 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Community Organization Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 2 doctorate’s community organization degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIUC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are $30,083, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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