by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 1,234 people earned their degree in gerontology, making the major the 485th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 306 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in gerontology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their gerontology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
The gerontology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree gerontology students.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Madonna University landed the #1 spot on the list. Madonna University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Livonia, Michigan. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region. BGSU is a fairly large public school situated in Bowling Green, Ohio. It awarded 10 bachelors’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Xavier University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s gerontology degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Miami University - Oxford. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Oxford, Ohio, this fairly large public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s gerontology students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Youngstown State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Youngstown State University is located in Youngstown, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s gerontology degrees to qualified students.
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Case Western Reserve University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Case Western Reserve University is a fairly large school located in Cleveland, Ohio that handed out 0 bachelors’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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