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2023 Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$28,857 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$51,689 Avg Salary

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

The Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value master's degree 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 Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for community organization majors pursuing a master's degree.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Community Organization & Advocacy

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

WIU graduate students pay an average of $12,182 in in-state 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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UIUC are $17,823 per year.

UIUC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list.

Full Community Organization & Advocacy at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Report

#3

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

The excellent master’s degree programs at Northwestern University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value community organization and advocacy schools in Illinois. 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 graduate student at Northwestern are $56,567 a year.

Northwestern also made our Best Community Organization & Advocacy Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list, coming in at #1.

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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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