2024 Best Gerontology Master's Degree Schools in California
3Colleges in California
161Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in gerontology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #269 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.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Gerontology Master's Degree Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 161 master's degrees in gerontology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Gerontology School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of gerontology for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to gerontology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of gerontology students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized gerontology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for gerontology students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Gerontology Master's Degree Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Featured Gerontology Programs
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Notes and References
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).