2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Tennessee

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Tennessee” 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 Tennessee, there were 15 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,063 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Tennessee” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Tennessee”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy in Tennessee

1

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#1 overall quality in Tennessee

$43,063 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #1 spot on the list. Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 masters’s community organization degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Vanderbilt University

2

Carson - Newman University
Jefferson City, Tennessee

#19 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carson - Newman University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Tennessee. Located in Jefferson City, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s community organization students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Carson - Newman

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• Most Focused Master’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.