2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy in the Southeast Region

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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 Southeast region, there were 286 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,268 and $31,603 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 66 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community organization and advocacy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in community organization and advocacy.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree community organization students.

Top 7 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy in the Southeast Region

1

Columbia College
Columbia, South Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southeast Region list. Columbia College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Columbia College South Carolina

2

Middle Georgia State University
Macon, Georgia

$28,837 Average Early-Career Earnings

$39,955 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Middle Georgia State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Macon, Georgia, this medium-sized public school handed out 31 degrees to qualified bachelors’s community organization students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Middle Georgia State University

3

Guilford College
Greensboro, North Carolina

Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Guilford College landed the #3 spot on the list. Guilford is located in Greensboro, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s community organization degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Guilford

4

West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Beckley, West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia University Institute of Technology. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southeast Region. West Virginia University Institute of Technology is located in Beckley, West Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s community organization degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at West Virginia University Tech

5

Southern Arkansas University Main Campus
Magnolia, Arkansas

$28,784 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Arkansas University Main Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southeast Region. Southern Arkansas University Main Campus is located in Magnolia, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s community organization degrees to qualified students.

Full Southern Arkansas University Main Campus Community Organization & Advocacy Report

6

Emory and Henry College
Emory, Virginia

Emory and Henry College did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #6. This small school is located in Emory, Virginia, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Emory and Henry College

6

University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas

University of Arkansas at Little Rock ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southeast Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Little Rock, Arkansas, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at UA Little Rock

• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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.