2022 Best Value Adult and Continuing Education Administration Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Adult and Continuing Education Administration Schools for a Master’s in Illinois” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Adult & Continuing Education Administration is the 629th most popular major in the country with 406 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Illinois, there were 42 adult and continuing education administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 adult and continuing education administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent adult and continuing education administration programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the adult and continuing education administration program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Adult and Continuing Education Administration Schools for a Master’s in Illinois” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Adult and Continuing Education Administration Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Adult and Continuing Education Administration Schools for a Master’s in Illinois.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education Administration in Illinois

#1

Northern Illinois University

Dekalb, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$11,086 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Illinois University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Adult and Continuing Education Administration Schools for a Master’s in Illinois. Located in Dekalb, Illinois, this fairly large public school handed out 19 degrees to qualified masters’s adult and continuing education administration students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NIU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Administration Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northern Illinois University are $11,086, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Adult & Continuing Education Administration at Northern Illinois University

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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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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