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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. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Community Organization Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Community Organization & Advocacy is the 169th most popular major in the country with 3,096 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, community organization and advocacy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,265 and had an average of $26,263 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 110 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,429 and $18,947 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Community Organization Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community organization and advocacy. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality community organization and advocacy programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the community organization and advocacy program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
The community organization school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Community Organization Schools in the Far Western US Region”.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most 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 far western us region community organization students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Portland State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Community Organization Schools in the Far Western US Region list. Portland State University is a large public school situated in Portland, Oregon. It awarded 32 ’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.
Portland State University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. It costs about $12,498 for far western us region community organization students per year to attend Portland State University.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Portland State University
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Community Organization Schools in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Santa Cruz landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Santa Cruz, California, and it awarded 35 ’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.
UC Santa Cruz did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. It costs about $17,930 for Far Western US Region Community Organization students per year to attend University of California - Santa Cruz.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at UC Santa Cruz
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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
- *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.