2024 Best Gerontology Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
5
Colleges in the Plains States Region
31
Master'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.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 5 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Gerontology Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 31 master's degrees in gerontology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
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 host of various 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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for gerontology students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Gerontology Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
ADVERTISEMENTS
Featured Gerontology Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.