2025 Best Adult & Continuing Education Schools in the Southwest Region
4Colleges in the Southwest Region
174Adult and Continuing Ed Degrees Awarded
A degree in adult & continuing education is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #432 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of adult & continuing education. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 174 degrees in adult & continuing education annually.
Choosing a Great Adult & Continuing Education School
Your choice of adult & continuing education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for adult & continuing education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Adult & Continuing Education Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Adult & Continuing Education Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Adult & Continuing Education in the Southwest Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the adult and continuing ed degree levels they offer.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Adult and Continuing Ed
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in adult & continuing education. Located in the midsize suburb of Norman, University of Oklahoma is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #191 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means University of Oklahoma is a great university overall.
There were roughly 29 adult & continuing education students who graduated with this degree at University of Oklahoma in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in adult & continuing education needs to look into Grand Canyon University. Located in the large city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #144 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Grand Canyon University is a great university overall.
There were roughly 4 adult & continuing education students who graduated with this degree at Grand Canyon University in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Central Oklahoma is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in adult & continuing education. UCO is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Edmond. This university ranks 8th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were about 15 adult & continuing education students who graduated with this degree at UCO in the most recent data year.
Oklahoma Christian University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in adult & continuing education. Located in the large city of Edmond, OC is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 13th out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were roughly 5 adult & continuing education students who graduated with this degree at OC in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of adult & continuing education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for adult & continuing education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
