2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Plains States Region

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Adult & Continuing Education is the 432nd most popular major in the country with 987 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 180 adult & continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 adult & continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree adult and continuing ed students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Plains States Region

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Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

Top 20% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Manhattan, Kansas, this fairly large public school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s adult and continuing ed students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Adult & Continuing Education at Kansas State University

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

• *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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