2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region
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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. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 987 people earned their degree in adult & continuing education, making the major the 432nd most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 39 adult & continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 adult & continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified masters’s adult and continuing ed students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at University of Southern Maine
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region list. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s adult and continuing ed degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Adult & Continuing Education at UCONN
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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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