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2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$37,305 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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.

2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for community organization majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Community Organization & Advocacy

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

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.

Northwestern graduate students pay an average of $56,567 in tuition and fees each year.

Northwestern did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value community organization and advocacy schools in the Great Lakes Region . IUPUI is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Indianapolis.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at IUPUI are $26,529 a year.

Full Community Organization & Advocacy at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis Report

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 large suburb of Ypsilanti, Eastern Michigan is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Eastern Michigan are $28,818 per year.

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Best 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

One of 5 majors within the area of study, community organization and advocacy has other similar majors worth exploring.

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.

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