2025 Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

Community Organization & Advocacy is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #139 out of the 343 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for community organization & advocacy students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 129 master's degrees in community organization & advocacy to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Master’s Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to community organization & advocacy students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other community organization & advocacy students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt community organization & advocacy students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized community organization & advocacy related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for community organization & advocacy students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Community Organization & Advocacy in the Southeast Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in community organization & advocacy.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Master's in Community Organization

1

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

18 Annual Graduates

$48,154 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in community organization & advocacy needs to take a look at Vanderbilt University. Located in the large city of Nashville, Vanderbilt is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.

Those community organization & advocacy students who get their master's degree from Vanderbilt University earn $2,460 more than the average community organization grad.

More information about a master’s in community organization & advocacy from Vanderbilt University

2

Murray State University
Murray, KY

13 Annual Graduates

$43,235 Median Starting Salary

It is hard to beat Murray State University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in community organization & advocacy. Murray State is a moderately-sized public university located in the town of Murray.

Master's students who receive their degree from the community organization program make about $43,235 in their early career salary.

More information about a master’s in community organization & advocacy from Murray State University

Best Community Organization & Advocacy Colleges by State

Explore the best community organization & advocacy schools for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	208	16
Virginia	182	1
Tennessee	166	13
Kentucky	147	36
Louisiana	147	130
Mississippi	145	6
West Virginia	112	12

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Rankings in Majors Related to Community Organization

Community Organization & Advocacy is one of 4 different types of Public Administration & Social Service programs to choose from.

Community Organization Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Community Organization & Advocacy	129

Majors Similar to Community Organization

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Administration	2,722
Public Policy	492
Human Services	103
Other Public Administration	93

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.