2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education
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Adult & Continuing Education is the 432nd most popular major in the country with 1,074 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 adult and continuing education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major for an Associate” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in adult and continuing education. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in adult and continuing education.
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Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major for an Associate”.
Top 4 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Adult & Continuing Education
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cochise County Community College District. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major for an Associate. Located in Sierra Vista, Arizona, this small public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified associates’s adult and continuing ed students 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 College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rio Salado College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major for an Associate 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 full report on Adult & Continuing Education at Rio Salado College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Incarnate Word. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major for an Associate. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’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 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of the Incarnate Word Adult & Continuing Education Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Allegany College of Maryland. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major for an Associate list. This small school is located in Cumberland, Maryland, and it awarded 0 associates’s adult and continuing ed degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Allegany College of Maryland 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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