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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 3,096 people earned their degree in community organization and advocacy, making the major the 169th most popular in the United States. 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 Illinois, there were 122 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $90,388 and $16,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 40 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community organization and advocacy. That schools that top this list have a program in community organization and advocacy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Northwestern University is located in Evanston, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 31 masters’s community organization degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Northwestern
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Illinois University landed the #2 spot on the list. Macomb, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s community organization degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at WIU
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Champaign, Illinois, and it awarded 2 masters’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DePaul University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois. This large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 0 masters’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at DePaul
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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%.
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- *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.