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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,872 people earned their degree in community organization & advocacy, making the major the 227th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 865 community organization & advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 812 community organization & advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in community organization & advocacy. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their community organization & advocacy program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree community organization students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand Canyon University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Phoenix, Arizona, and it awarded 407 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Grand Canyon University Community Organization & Advocacy Report
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Phoenix - Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Phoenix - Arizona is a large school located in Phoenix, Arizona that handed out 328 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at UOPX - Arizona
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oral Roberts University landed the #3 spot on the list. Oral Roberts University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It awarded 6 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full ORU Community Organization & Advocacy Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Skysong. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Scottsdale, Arizona, and it awarded 65 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at ASU - Skysong
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at ASU - Tempe
University of New Mexico - Main Campus ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s community organization degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at UNM
New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Las Cruces, New Mexico is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s community organization degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at NMSU Main Campus
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
