2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in Kentucky

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Kentucky” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,074 people earned their degree in adult and continuing education, making the major the 432nd most popular in the United States.

Across Kentucky, there were 27 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,023 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Kentucky” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Kentucky” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Kentucky

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in Kentucky

1

Morehead State University
Morehead, Kentucky

#20 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Morehead State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Kentucky. Morehead State University is located in Morehead, Kentucky and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 masters’s adult and continuing ed degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Adult & Continuing Education at Morehead State University

2

Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Kentucky

#7 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Kentucky University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Kentucky. Western Kentucky University is a public institution located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Adult & Continuing Education at Western Kentucky University

3

University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

#2 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisville. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult and Continuing Ed Major in Kentucky. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, this large public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s adult and continuing ed students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UofL Adult & Continuing Education Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education in the Southeast Region
• 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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