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2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

7 Colleges
$31,458 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$51,689 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 7 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which master's degree 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 Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Community Organization & Advocacy

Our 2023 rankings named Western Illinois University the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for community organization and advocacy students working on their master’s degree. WIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the remote town of Macomb.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WIU are $12,182 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Champaign.

UIUC graduate students pay an average of $30,862 in tuition and fees each year.

UIUC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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#3

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.

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

Northwestern also took the #1 spot in our Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

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Out of the 7 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis landed the # 4 spot on the list. IUPUI is a very large public school located in the large city of Indianapolis.

IUPUI graduate students pay an average of $26,529 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Michigan - Dearborn. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UM Dearborn is a medium-sized public school located in the medium-sized city of Dearborn.

UM Dearborn graduate students pay an average of $25,552 in tuition and fees each year.

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#6

Cleveland State University

Cleveland, OH

Cleveland State University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Cleveland, Cleveland State University is a public school with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Cleveland State University are $18,051 per year.

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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. U-M is a fairly large public school located in the city of Ann Arbor.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at U-M are $50,464 per year.

U-M excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

Read full report on Community Organization & Advocacy at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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 7 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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