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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 891 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,797 and $19,006 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Master’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community organization and advocacy. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent community organization and advocacy programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the community organization and advocacy program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree vets studying community organization.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Towson University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Master’s. This large school is located in Towson, Maryland, and it awarded 5 masters’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.
Towson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 3 of the 21,917 students enrolled at Towson were GI Bill® students, of which 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,999. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Binghamton University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Vestal, New York, this fairly large public school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified masters’s community organization students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Binghamton University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Among the 18,148 students enrolled at Binghamton University, 102 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 46 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,948. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Master’s list. This fairly large school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 14 masters’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.
John Jay also made our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #3.According to our most recent data, John Jay supports 15,766 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $952. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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