2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 271 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great adult and continuing education programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the adult and continuing education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Southeast Region

#1

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$15,465 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Adult and Continuing Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. 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.

Louisiana State University also made our “Best Adult & Continuing Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Louisiana State University is $15,465 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Adult and Continuing Ed students.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Adult & Continuing Education Report

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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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