2025 Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Community Organization & Advocacy is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #133 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 223 bachelor's degrees in community organization & advocacy during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Community Organization & Advocacy School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of community organization & advocacy for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality community organization program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on community organization & advocacy students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other community organization & advocacy students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt community organization & advocacy students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Community Organization & Advocacy Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Community Organization & Advocacy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Community Organization & Advocacy in the Great Lakes Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in community organization & advocacy.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Community Organization

1

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

80 Annual Graduates

$61,009 Median Starting Salary

Northwestern University is a great decision for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in community organization & advocacy. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Evanston.

Community Organization & Advocacy bachelor's degree recipients from Northwestern University earn a boost of approximately $16,162 over the average income of community organization & advocacy majors.

More information about a bachelor’s in community organization & advocacy from Northwestern University

2

Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, MI

107 Annual Graduates

$49,103 Median Starting Salary

$10,470 Median Student Debt

Central Michigan University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in community organization & advocacy. Central Michigan is a fairly large public university located in the town of Mount Pleasant.

Bachelor's recipients from the community organization & advocacy major at Central Michigan University earn $4,256 above the typical graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.

More information about a bachelor’s in community organization & advocacy from Central Michigan University

3

Siena Heights University
Adrian, MI

21 Annual Graduates

$34,114 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in community organization & advocacy needs to take a look at Siena Heights University. Siena Heights University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the distant town of Adrian.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the community organization program earn an average of $34,114 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in community organization & advocacy from Siena Heights University

Best Community Organization & Advocacy Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	261	197
Ohio	252	11
Illinois	241	69
Indiana	235	14
Wisconsin	213	2

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Community Organization & Advocacy Related Rankings by Major

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

Community Organization Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Community Organization & Advocacy	223

Most Popular Majors Related to Community Organization

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Administration	752
Public Policy	304
Human Services	276
Other Public Administration	28

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.