2022 Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

Adult & Continuing Education is the 416th most popular major in the country with 1,103 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 190 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in adult and continuing education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality adult and continuing education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the adult and continuing education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree adult and continuing ed students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Cochise County Community College District

Sierra Vista, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$5,856 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cochise County Community College District. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Sierra Vista, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Cochise College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $5,856 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Adult and Continuing Ed students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Cochise County Community College District.

Full Cochise County Community College District Adult & Continuing Education Report

#2

Rio Salado College

Tempe, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$9,102 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rio Salado College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Rio Salado College is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree adult and continuing ed students whose families make $0-$30k list, Rio Salado College has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Rio Salado College is $9,102 for southwest region associate degree adult and continuing ed students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at Rio Salado College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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