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2023 Most Popular Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

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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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Most Popular Community Organization & Advocacy Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in Illinois to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Community Organization & Advocacy program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for community organization majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

Our 2023 rankings named Northwestern University the most popular school in Illinois for community organization and advocacy students working on their graduate certificate. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.

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#2

DePaul University

Chicago, IL

Out of the 3 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, DePaul University landed the # 2 spot on the list. DePaul is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

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Out of the 3 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Illinois University landed the # 2 spot on the list. WIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Macomb.

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Best Community Organization & Advocacy Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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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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