2022 Best Value Community Organization Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s in the New England 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 172nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, community organization and advocacy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,697 and had an average of $25,006 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 280 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,880 and $26,363 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 46 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent community organization and advocacy programs, but they also cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Community Organization Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Community Organization Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy in the New England Region

#1

Clark University

Worcester, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$47,730 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$44,170 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clark University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Community Organization Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. Clark University is a small school located in Worcester, Massachusetts that handed out 23 masters’s community organization degrees in 2019-2020.

Clark not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Clark University are $47,730, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Clark

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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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