2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 183 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in adult and continuing education. That schools that top this list have a program in adult and continuing education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Lincoln University
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lincoln University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at Lincoln University

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Excelsior College
Albany, New York

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Excelsior College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Albany, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s adult and continuing ed degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Adult & Continuing Education at Excelsior College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education

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

• *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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