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2023 Most Popular Community Organization & Advocacy Master's Degree Schools in Illinois

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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.

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 Master's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Illinois to see which ones were the most popular master's degree 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.

Check out the community organization master's degree programs at these schools if you want to attend one of the most popular in Illinois.

#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 master’s degree. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

Of the 31 students majoring in community organization at Northwestern, 26% are male and 74% are female.

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The in-demand master’s degree programs at Western Illinois University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular community organization and advocacy schools in Illinois. WIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the remote town of Macomb.

Women make up 57% of the community organization majors at the school.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a great place for community organization and advocacy students working on their master’s degree. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.

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#4

DePaul University

Chicago, IL

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means DePaul University is a great place for community organization and advocacy students working on their master’s degree. DePaul is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

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Best Community Organization & Advocacy Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Most Popular Community Organization & Advocacy Schools 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 4 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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