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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Massachusetts, there were 215 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,948 and $24,074 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 48 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,084 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in community organization and advocacy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in community organization and advocacy.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts master’s degree community organization students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Merrimack College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Massachusetts list. Merrimack is a private not-for-profit institution located in North Andover, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 24 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Merrimack Community Organization & Advocacy Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 14 degrees to qualified masters’s community organization students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Clark
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brandeis University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Massachusetts list. Located in Waltham, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified masters’s community organization students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Brandeis Community Organization & Advocacy Report
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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
- *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.
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