2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult Development & Aging in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Adult Development and Aging Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Adult Development & Aging is the 797th most popular major in the country with 324 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 31 adult development and aging graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 adult development and aging graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality adult development and aging programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the adult development and aging program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Adult Development and Aging Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Adult Development and Aging Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree adult development and aging students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult Development & Aging in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$26,552 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Adult Development and Aging Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Eastern Michigan University is a fairly large public school situated in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It awarded 5 masters’s adult development and aging degrees in 2019-2020.

Eastern Michigan did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Adult Development & Aging Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Eastern Michigan are $26,552, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Adult Development & Aging at Eastern Michigan University

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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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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