2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Great Lakes region, there were 103 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the adult and continuing education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

Ball State University

Muncie, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$26,204 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ball State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Ball State is located in Muncie, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 doctorate’s adult and continuing ed degrees to qualified students.

Ball State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Ball State University are $26,204.

Read full report on Adult & Continuing Education at Ball State

• Best Value Doctor’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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