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2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$56,567 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate School for You

Community Organization & Advocacy is the #126 most popular major in Illinois with 53 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate School

#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 Illinois. 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 in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Northwestern is ranked #1 for overall quality for community organization in Illinois.

Full Community Organization & Advocacy at Northwestern University Report

Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 50
Ohio 19
Indiana 59

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

Majors Similar to Community Organization

Related Major Annual Graduates
Social Work 33,631
Public Administration 13,571
Public Policy 3,737
Human Services 1,277
Other Public Administration 295

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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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