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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Community Organization & Advocacy is the 169th most popular major in the country with 2,872 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. 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 Southwest region, there were 865 community organization & advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,070 and $31,128 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 812 community organization & advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 community organization school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand Canyon University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, this large private for-profit school awarded 407 degrees to qualified bachelors’s community organization students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Grand Canyon University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Phoenix - Arizona is a large private for-profit school situated in Phoenix, Arizona. It awarded 328 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
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%.
Full University of Phoenix - Arizona Community Organization & Advocacy Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oral Roberts University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region list. Tulsa, Oklahoma is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s community organization degrees to 6 students 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 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at Oral Roberts University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Skysong. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region list. Arizona State University - Skysong is a public institution located in Scottsdale, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 65 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Arizona State University - Skysong Community Organization & Advocacy Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Arizona State University - Tempe Community Organization & Advocacy Report
New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s community organization students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full NMSU Main Campus Community Organization & Advocacy Report
University of New Mexico - Main Campus ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Southwest Region list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s community organization degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.
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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%.
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.
