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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 286 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,268 and $31,603 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 66 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in community organization and advocacy. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent community organization and advocacy programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the community organization and advocacy program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Southeast Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s”.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s list. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s community organization degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
Columbia College South Carolina did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.Our most recent data shows that 111 of the 1,218 students enrolled at Columbia College South Carolina were GI Bill® students, of which 67 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,897. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Middle Georgia State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s. Located in Macon, Georgia, this medium-sized public school awarded 31 degrees to qualified bachelors’s community organization students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree vets studying community organization list, Middle Georgia State University has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Middle Georgia State University supports 8,404 students, and 546 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 277 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,734. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
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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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