2022 Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 103 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the adult and continuing education program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$13,560 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Illinois University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Eastern Illinois University is a public institution located in Charleston, Illinois. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

EIU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $13,560 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree adult and continuing ed students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Eastern Illinois University.

Full Eastern Illinois University Adult & Continuing Education Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education (Income $48-$75k)

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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