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2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$30,566 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$90,388 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Community Organization & Advocacy 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Schools in Illinois ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value programs for community organization students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Schools in Illinois

Check out the community organization programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Community Organization & Advocacy

$13,297 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Western Illinois University to be the best value school for community organization and advocacy students who want to pursue a degree in Illinois. WIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Macomb.

WIU undergraduate students pay an average of $13,297 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$17,634 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best community organization and advocacy schools in Illinois. UIUC is a very large public school located in the small city of Champaign.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UIUC are $17,634 per year.

UIUC also made our Best Community Organization & Advocacy Schools in Illinois list, coming in at #3.

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#3

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL
$60,768 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Schools in Illinois list. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Northwestern are $60,768 a year.

Northwestern also took the #1 spot in our Best Community Organization & Advocacy Schools in Illinois rankings.

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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 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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