2023 Best Value Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in Connecticut (With Aid)
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Ranked Colleges
15
Degrees Awarded
$23,000
Avg Net Price*
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Adult & Continuing Education is the 432nd most popular major in the country with 1,074 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Connecticut, there were 15 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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.
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 in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid.
Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in Connecticut (With Aid)
Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Storrs, Connecticut, and it awarded 15 ’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2020-2021.
UCONN not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Schools in Connecticut” list. It costs about $22,974 for Connecticut Adult and Continuing Ed students with aid per year to attend UCONN.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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
- *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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