2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Adult & Continuing Education is the 416th most popular major in the country with 1,103 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 103 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality adult and continuing education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

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

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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 Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree adult and continuing ed students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$14,607 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Illinois University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Charleston, Illinois, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2019-2020.

EIU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend EIU is $14,607 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Adult and Continuing Ed students with aid.

Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at EIU

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education (With Aid)

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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