2022 Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great adult and continuing education programs and cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree adult and continuing ed students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education (Income $48-$75k)

#1

Cochise County Community College District

Sierra Vista, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$8,444 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Cochise County Community College District landed the #1 spot on the 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” list. It costs about $8,444 for associate degree adult and continuing ed students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Cochise County Community College District.

Read full report on Adult & Continuing Education at Cochise County Community College District

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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