2024 Best Adult & Continuing Education Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
17Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in adult & continuing education is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #115 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of adult & continuing education. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 17 doctor's degrees in adult & continuing education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Adult & Continuing Education School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of adult & continuing education for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to adult & continuing education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of adult & continuing education students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized adult & continuing education related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for adult & continuing education students working on their doctor's degree.
The adult and continuing ed school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Adult & Continuing Education Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Adult & Continuing Education in the Southwest Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in adult & continuing education.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Doctorate in Adult and Continuing Ed
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).