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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Community Organization & Advocacy is the 227th most popular major in the country with 2,872 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Illinois, there were 119 community organization & advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 71 community organization & advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,374 and $23,086 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community organization & advocacy. That schools that top this list have a program in community organization & 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois. Evanston, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s community organization degrees to 71 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 99%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Aurora University landed the #2 spot on the list. Aurora, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s community organization degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.
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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.
