2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Adult & Continuing Education is the 432nd most popular major in the country with 1,074 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 36 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in adult and continuing education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their adult and continuing education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the New England Region

1

University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region list. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized public school situated in Portland, Maine. It awarded 20 masters’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Southern Maine Adult & Continuing Education Report

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 15% overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Connecticut is a large public school situated in Storrs, Connecticut. It awarded 15 masters’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Adult & Continuing Education at UCONN

• Most Focused Master’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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