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Ranked Colleges
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia 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 Georgia, there were 33 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,837 and $39,955 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,491 and $29,433 respectively.
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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Middle Georgia State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Georgia for Community Organization for a Bachelor’s list. Middle Georgia State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Macon, Georgia. It awarded 31 bachelors’s community organization degrees in 2020-2021.
Middle Georgia State University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking.Among the 8,404 students enrolled at Middle Georgia State University, 546 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 277 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,734. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Middle Georgia State University]](/colleges/middle-georgia-state-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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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