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Veterans 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 “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Community Organization & Advocacy is the 227th most popular major in the country with 3,096 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 801 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 750 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in community organization and advocacy. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality community organization and advocacy programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the community organization and advocacy program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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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 “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree vets studying community organization.
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 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s community organization degrees to 349 students in 2020-2021.
Grand Canyon University also took the #3 spot in our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Of the 103,427 students enrolled at Grand Canyon University, 7,172 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 4,951 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,970. To help with additional expenses, 5 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Grand Canyon University offers credit for military training for eligible students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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 full report on veteran student life at Grand Canyon University]](/colleges/grand-canyon-university/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s. University of Phoenix - Arizona is a private for-profit institution located in Tempe, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 346 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
UOPX - Arizona did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Among the 89,763 students enrolled at UOPX - Arizona, 135 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 157 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,437. On top of their other funding sources, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UOPX - Arizona does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
Full UOPX - Arizona Veteran Student Life Report
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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