2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Plains States region, there were 179 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,957 and $33,744 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 30 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in community organization and advocacy. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their community organization and advocacy program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree community organization students.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy in the Plains States Region

1

Des Moines Area Community College
Ankeny, Iowa

$27,625 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,230 Average Student Debt

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Des Moines Area Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Ankeny, Iowa, this large public school awarded 21 degrees to qualified associates’s community organization students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at DMACC

2

Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kirkwood Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region list. Kirkwood Community College is a fairly large school located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that handed out 7 associates’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Minneapolis, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minneapolis Community and Technical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region list. Minneapolis Community and Technical College is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 associates’s community organization degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Minneapolis Community and Technical College

4

Black Hills State University
Spearfish, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Black Hills State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region list. This small school is located in Spearfish, South Dakota, and it awarded 20 associates’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at BHSU

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy

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

• *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.