2023 Schools Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region
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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 Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region” 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.
Across the New England region, there were 39 adult & continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 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 Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region list. University of Southern Maine is a public institution located in Portland, Maine. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 13 ’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default 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 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 ’s adult and continuing ed degrees to 26 students in 2021-2022.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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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