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Ranked Colleges
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 2,872 people earned their degree in community organization & advocacy, making the major the 227th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 529 community organization & advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 community organization & advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,470 and $126,402 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis landed the #1 spot on the list. IUPUI is a large public school situated in Indianapolis, Indiana. It awarded 4 doctorate’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%.
Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified doctorate’s community organization students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UIUC 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%.
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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.
