2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 a Bachelor’s 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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 adult & continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,724 and $23,030 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in adult & continuing education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their adult & continuing education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree adult and continuing ed students.
Top 7 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Christian University landed the #1 spot on the list. OC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Edmond, Oklahoma. It awarded 5 bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.
Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at OC
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lincoln University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major list. Lincoln is a public institution located in Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Full Lincoln Adult & Continuing Education Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nevada - Las Vegas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major. University of Nevada - Las Vegas is a public institution located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Nevada - Las Vegas Adult & Continuing Education Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Welch College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major list. Located in Gallatin, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s adult and continuing ed students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at Welch
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Excelsior University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major. Excelsior University is located in Albany, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.
Full Excelsior University Adult & Continuing Education Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major. This fairly large school is located in Muncie, Indiana, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at Ball State
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College landed the #2 spot on the list. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Adult & Continuing Education at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
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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
- *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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