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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Community Organization & Advocacy is the 227th most popular major in the country with 3,096 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 566 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 143 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in community organization and advocacy. That schools that top this list have a program in community organization and advocacy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region. IUPUI is a large public school situated in Indianapolis, Indiana. It awarded 39 masters’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cleveland State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region. Cleveland State University is located in Cleveland, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 masters’s community organization degrees to qualified students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 31 diplomas to qualified masters’s community organization students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Illinois University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Macomb, Illinois, this medium-sized public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified masters’s community organization students in 2020-2021.
Full Western Illinois University Community Organization & Advocacy Report
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #5 spot on the list. U-M is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 45 masters’s community organization degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Community Organization & Advocacy Report
University of Michigan - Dearborn ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region list. UM Dearborn is located in Dearborn, Michigan and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s community organization degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s community organization students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full UIUC Community Organization & Advocacy Report
DePaul University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s community organization students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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.
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