2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Adult Development & Aging is the 877th most popular major in the country with 299 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 16 adult development and aging graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 adult development and aging graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in adult development and aging. That schools that top this list have a program in adult development and aging in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Plains States Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult Development & Aging in the Plains States Region

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Wichita State University
Wichita, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wichita State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Plains States Region. Wichita State University is a fairly large public school situated in Wichita, Kansas. It awarded 14 masters’s adult development and aging degrees in 2020-2021.

Full WSU Adult Development & Aging Report

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Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Minnesota State University - Mankato. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Plains States Region. This fairly large school is located in Mankato, Minnesota, and it awarded 1 masters’s adult development and aging degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Minnesota State Mankato Adult Development & Aging Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult Development & Aging

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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