2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Adult & Continuing Education is the 432nd most popular major in the country with 987 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 adult & continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,431 and $15,731 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in adult & continuing education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in adult & continuing education.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree adult and continuing ed students.
Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Cochise County Community College District landed the #1 spot on the list. Cochise College is a small public school situated in Sierra Vista, Arizona. It awarded 0 associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Cochise County Community College District Adult & Continuing Education Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rio Salado College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major list. Rio Salado College is a fairly large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 0 associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Adult & Continuing Education at Rio Salado College
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Allegany College of Maryland landed the #3 spot on the list. Cumberland, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Adult & Continuing Education at Allegany College of Maryland
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Incarnate Word. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major. UIW is a medium-sized school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 0 associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at University of the Incarnate Word
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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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