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With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Community Organization & Advocacy is the 169th most popular major in the country with 3,096 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, community organization and advocacy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,265 and had an average of $26,263 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 891 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,797 and $19,006 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 517 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community organization and advocacy. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great community organization and advocacy programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the community organization and advocacy program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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 “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s”.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nazareth College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Rochester, New York, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 11 degrees to qualified bachelors’s community organization students in 2020-2021.
Nazareth also took the #2 spot in our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Of the 2,791 students enrolled at Nazareth College, 67 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 42 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $14,814. To help with additional expenses, 15 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Nazareth College offers credit for military training for eligible students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Nazareth College Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Empire State College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s. SUNY Empire State College is a medium-sized public school situated in Saratoga Springs, New York. It awarded 431 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.
SUNY Empire did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Among the 10,724 students enrolled at SUNY Empire State College, 279 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 177 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $3,680. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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 full report on veteran student life at SUNY Empire State College]](/colleges/suny-empire-state-college/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Metropolitan College of New York. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s list. MCNY is located in New York, New York and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 61 bachelors’s community organization degrees to qualified students.
MCNY not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list.Of the 856 students enrolled at MCNY, 115 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 97 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $13,790. To help with additional expenses, 33 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full MCNY Veteran Student Life Report
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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