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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Bachelor’s 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 169th most popular in the United States. In , community organization & advocacy graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $39,296 and had an average of $27,890 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 529 community organization & advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,872 and $29,337 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 223 community organization & advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,415 and $23,858 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 13 colleges that offer a degree in community organization & advocacy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in community organization & advocacy.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree community organization students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Siena Heights University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Siena Heights University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Adrian, Michigan. It awarded 25 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.
Full Siena Heights University Community Organization & Advocacy Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Michigan University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region. Central Michigan is a fairly large public school situated in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. It awarded 111 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Central Michigan University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Miami University - Hamilton. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Miami University - Hamilton is located in Hamilton, Ohio and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s community organization degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Miami University - Hamilton
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northland College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Northland College is a small school located in Ashland, Wisconsin that handed out 2 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Northland College
Out of the 13 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Aquinas College Michigan landed the #5 spot on the list. Aquinas College Michigan is a small school located in Grand Rapids, Michigan that handed out 2 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, 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 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Aquinas College Michigan
With a ranking of #6, Northwestern University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 71 degrees to qualified bachelors’s community organization students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 99%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Northwestern
With a ranking of #7, Miami University - Middletown did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Middletown, Ohio, this small public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s community organization students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Miami University - Middletown Community Organization & Advocacy Report
Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. IUPUI is a large school located in Indianapolis, Indiana that handed out 7 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at IUPUI
Madonna University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #9. Madonna University is a small school located in Livonia, Michigan that handed out 26 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Madonna
Aurora University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Aurora University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Aurora, Illinois. It awarded 0 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Aurora University
Cleveland State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #11. Cleveland, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s community organization degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Cleveland State University
University of Indianapolis came in at #12 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. UIndy is a private not-for-profit institution located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at UIndy
Alverno College came in at #12 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Alverno College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Alverno College
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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.
