2022 Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,103 people earned their degree in adult and continuing education, making the major the 416th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 190 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent adult and continuing education programs, but they also 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s 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 a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Oklahoma Christian University

Edmond, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$21,347 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Christian University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Edmond, Oklahoma, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2019-2020.

OC also made our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $21,347 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Adult and Continuing Ed students with aid per year to attend Oklahoma Christian University.

Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at OC

• Best Value Bachelor’s 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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