2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Adult & Continuing Education is the 432nd most popular major in the country with 1,074 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 205 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in adult and continuing education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in adult and continuing education.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cochise County Community College District. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Sierra Vista, Arizona, and it awarded 5 associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at Cochise County Community College District
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rio Salado College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Southwest Region list. Rio Salado College is a fairly large public school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 1 associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at Rio Salado College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Incarnate Word. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Southwest Region list. UIW is a medium-sized school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 0 associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UIW 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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