2024 Best Community Organization & Advocacy Doctor's Degree Schools

Community Organization & Advocacydoctorate programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #184 out of the 306 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Community Organization & Advocacy Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 23 doctor's degrees in community organization & advocacy during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Community Organization & Advocacy School for Your Doctor's Degree

The community organization doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality community organization program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on community organization & advocacy students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other community organization & advocacy students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt community organization & advocacy students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized community organization & advocacy related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for community organization & advocacy students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Community Organization & Advocacy Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Community Organization & Advocacy Doctor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Community Organization & Advocacy in the United States

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in community organization & advocacy.

Top Schools for a Doctorate in Community Organization

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Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS

2 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in community organization & advocacy has to check out Kansas State University. K -State is a large public university located in the city of Manhattan.More information about a doctorate in community organization & advocacy from Kansas State University

1

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

3 Annual Graduates

Cornell University is a good option for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in community organization & advocacy. Cornell is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Ithaca.More information about a doctorate in community organization & advocacy from Cornell University

2

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

3 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in community organization & advocacy needs to look into University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in community organization & advocacy from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3

Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN

2 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in community organization & advocacy needs to check out Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. Located in the city of Indianapolis, IUPUI is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in community organization & advocacy from Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis

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Binghamton University
Vestal, NY

7 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Binghamton University if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in community organization & advocacy. Located in the midsize suburb of Vestal, Binghamton University is a public university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in community organization & advocacy from Binghamton University

Community Organization & Advocacy by Region

View the Best Community Organization & Advocacy Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Community Organization & Advocacy Related Rankings by Major

One of 4 majors within the Public Administration & Social Service area of study, Community Organization & Advocacy has other similar majors worth exploring.

Community Organization Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Community Organization & Advocacy	23

Majors Similar to Community Organization

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Administration	377
Public Policy	241
Human Services	82
Other Public Administration	37

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.