2024 Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Community Organization & Advocacy is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #139 out of the 343 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 49 master's degrees in community organization & advocacy during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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

Your choice of community organization & advocacy for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to community organization & advocacy students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other community organization & advocacy students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt community organization & advocacy students go into to obtain their master'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 master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Community Organization & Advocacy in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in community organization & advocacy.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Community Organization

1

Binghamton University
Vestal, NY

11 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in community organization & advocacy needs to look into Binghamton University. Binghamton University is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized suburb of Vestal.More information about a master’s in community organization & advocacy from Binghamton University

2

Towson University
Towson, MD

5 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in community organization & advocacy needs to look into Towson University. Towson is a fairly large public university located in the city of Towson.More information about a master’s in community organization & advocacy from Towson University

3

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York, NY

14 Annual Graduates

$59,052 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in community organization & advocacy has to look into John Jay College of Criminal Justice. John Jay is a large public college located in the city of New York.

Students who graduate with their master's from the community organization program state that they receive average early career income of $59,052.

More information about a master’s in community organization & advocacy from John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Best Community Organization & Advocacy Colleges by State

Explore the best community organization & advocacy colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	27
Pennsylvania	248	17
Maryland	193	5

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Rankings in Majors Related to Community Organization

Community Organization & Advocacy is one of 4 different types of Public Administration & Social Service programs to choose from.

Community Organization Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Community Organization & Advocacy	49

Majors Similar to Community Organization

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Administration	2,690
Public Policy	818
Human Services	123
Other Public Administration	44

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.