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

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” 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 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in adult and continuing education. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in adult and continuing education.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The adult and continuing ed school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region for a Master’s”.

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Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree adult and continuing ed students.

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

1

University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region for a Master’s. Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s adult and continuing ed degrees to 20 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%.

Full University of Southern Maine Adult & Continuing Education Report

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University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 15% overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Adult and Continuing Ed Major in the New England Region for a Master’s list. University of Connecticut is located in Storrs, Connecticut and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 masters’s adult and continuing ed degrees to qualified students.

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 University of Connecticut

• Most Popular 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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