2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate School for You
Out of all the majors we analyze each year, community organization and advocacy was ranked #167 in the country. In fact 3,096 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.
Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
The Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for community organization students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Community Organization & Advocacy
Our analysis found Northwestern University to be the best value school for community organization and advocacy students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Great Lakes Region . Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 per year.
Northwestern also took the #1 spot in our Best Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. IUPUI is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Indianapolis.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at IUPUI are $26,529 per year.
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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Eastern Michigan University is a great value for community organization and advocacy students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the suburb of Ypsilanti, Eastern Michigan is a public college with a large student population.
Eastern Michigan graduate students pay an average of $28,818 in tuition and fees each year.
Request InformationBest Community Organization & Advocacy Colleges by State
Explore the best community organization and advocacy schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Michigan | 293 |
| Ohio | 31 |
| Illinois | 122 |
| Indiana | 73 |
| Wisconsin | 2 |
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Community Organization & Advocacy Related Majors for Community Organization
One of 5 majors within the area of study, community organization and advocacy has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Majors Related to Community Organization
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Social Work | 58,326 |
| Public Administration | 16,905 |
| Human Services | 13,238 |
| Public Policy | 6,430 |
| Other Public Administration | 588 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.
- 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 the rest 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.