2024 Best Adult & Continuing Education Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
63Master's Degrees
a master's degree in adult & continuing education is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #176 out of 1172 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of adult & continuing education. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 63 master's degrees in adult & continuing education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Adult & Continuing Education School for Your Master's Degree
The adult and continuing ed master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different 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 master'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for adult & continuing education students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Adult & Continuing Education Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Adult & Continuing Education in the Great Lakes Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for adult & continuing education students seeking a a master's degree.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's 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).