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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$17,900
Avg Net Price*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Community Organization Schools in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Community Organization & Advocacy is the 227th most popular major in the country with 3,096 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across California, there were 43 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great community organization and advocacy programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the community organization and advocacy program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The community organization school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Community Organization Schools in California For Those Getting Aid”.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Community Organization Schools in California For Those Getting Aid.
Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Community Organization Schools in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Santa Cruz landed the #1 spot on the list. University of California - Santa Cruz is located in Santa Cruz, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 35 ’s community organization degrees to qualified students.
UC Santa Cruz also took the #1 spot in our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Schools in California” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UC Santa Cruz is $17,930 for California Community Organization students with aid.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at University of California - Santa Cruz
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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
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.
