2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Gerontology

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Gerontology Schools for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Gerontology is the 467th most popular major in the country with 1,226 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 34 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality gerontology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the gerontology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Gerontology

#1

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

Green Bay, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$10,340 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate list. Northeast Wisconsin Technical College is a public institution located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NWTC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Gerontology Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $10,340 for associate degree gerontology students per year to attend NWTC.

Full NWTC Gerontology Report

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Photo by Chalmers Butterfield.

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