Community Organization & Advocacy at Allegheny College

If you are interested in studying community organization and advocacy, you may want to check out the program at Allegheny College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Allegheny is located in Meadville, Pennsylvania and approximately 1,667 students attend the school each year. Of the 423 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College in 2021, 12 of them were community organization and advocacy majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Community Organization & Advocacy section at the bottom of this page.

Allegheny Community Organization & Advocacy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Community Organization

Allegheny Community Organization & Advocacy Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks community organization programs across the country. The following shows how Allegheny performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The community organization major at Allegheny is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Community Organization & Advocacy. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Community Organization & Advocacy Schools	15
Most Popular Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	17

Community Organization Student Demographics at Allegheny

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the community organization majors at Allegheny College.

Allegheny Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of community organization bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women. The typical community organization bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Allegheny since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 29% more racial-ethnic minorities in its community organization bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Allegheny College with a bachelor's in community organization.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Allegheny also has a doctoral program available in community organization. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Community Organization Grads May Go Into

A degree in community organization can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for Allegheny College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Government Programs Eligibility Interviewers	8,580	$50,570
Social and Community Service Managers	8,300	$65,620
Community and Social Service Specialists	1,230	$50,810

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Joshtys under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.