2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Florida

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Florida” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across Florida, there were 18 adult & continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 adult & continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,663 and $45,470 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Florida” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in adult & continuing education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in adult & continuing education.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Florida

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Florida”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in Florida

1

Florida International University
Miami, Florida

#8 overall quality in Florida

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida International University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Florida. FIU is a large school located in Miami, Florida that handed out 14 masters’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full FIU Adult & Continuing Education Report

2

University of South Florida - Main Campus
Tampa, Florida

#6 overall quality in Florida

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Florida - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. USF Tampa is a large school located in Tampa, Florida that handed out 0 masters’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at USF Tampa

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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