2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in adult and continuing education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent adult and continuing education 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 program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education

#1

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$14,607 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Illinois University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s. EIU is a medium-sized school located in Charleston, Illinois that handed out 1 bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2019-2020.

EIU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Eastern Illinois University is $14,607 for bachelor’s degree adult and continuing ed students.

Full Eastern Illinois University Adult & Continuing Education Report

#2

Oklahoma Christian University

Edmond, Oklahoma

#3 in overall quality

$21,347 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma Christian University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Oklahoma Christian University is a small school located in Edmond, Oklahoma that handed out 5 bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2019-2020.

OC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend OC is $21,347 for bachelor’s degree adult and continuing ed students.

Full Oklahoma Christian University Adult & Continuing Education Report

#3

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$15,465 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College landed the #3 spot on the list. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Louisiana State University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $15,465 for bachelor’s degree adult and continuing ed students per year to attend Louisiana State University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

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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