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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for community organization & advocacy students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 129 master's degrees in community organization & advocacy to qualified students.
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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for community organization & advocacy students working on their master's degree.
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 Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Community Organization & Advocacy Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in community organization & advocacy needs to take a look at Vanderbilt University. Located in the city of Nashville, Vanderbilt is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.
Those community organization & advocacy students who get their master's degree from Vanderbilt University earn $2,460 more than the average community organization student.
It's hard to beat Murray State University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in community organization & advocacy. Murray State is a medium-sized public university located in the distant town of Murray.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the community organization program make about $43,235 in their early career salary.
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.
