2024 Best Adult & Continuing Education Schools in Pennsylvania
2Colleges in Pennsylvania
92Adult and Continuing Ed Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in adult & continuing education, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #432 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for adult & continuing education students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 92 degrees in adult & continuing education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Adult & Continuing Education Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Adult & Continuing Education in Pennsylvania
The schools below may not offer all types of adult and continuing ed degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Pennsylvania Schools in Adult and Continuing Ed
Every student pursuing a degree in adult & continuing education has to look into University of Pennsylvania. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #4 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were approximately 21 adult & continuing education students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent data year.
Widener University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in adult & continuing education. Widener is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Chester. This university ranks 17th out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 7 adult & continuing education students who graduated with this degree at Widener in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in adult & continuing education has to look into Point Park University. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Point Park is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 58th out of 109 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 9 adult & continuing education students who graduated with this degree at Point Park in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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