2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” 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.

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.

For this year’s “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Cochise County Community College District

Sierra Vista, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$6,228 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 Getting Aid list. Located in Sierra Vista, Arizona, this small public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified associates’s adult and continuing ed 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 $6,228 for southwest region associate degree adult and continuing ed students with aid per year to attend Cochise County Community College District.

Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at Cochise County Community College District

#2

Rio Salado College

Tempe, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$9,320 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 Getting Aid. Rio Salado College is a fairly large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 2 associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Rio Salado College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Rio Salado College is $9,320 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Adult and Continuing Ed students with aid.

Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at Rio Salado College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education (With Aid)

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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