2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,234 people earned their degree in gerontology, making the major the 485th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 11 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree gerontology students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Gerontology in the Southwest Region

1

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas State University is located in San Marcos, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s gerontology degrees to qualified students.

Full Texas State Gerontology Report

2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region. UCO is a fairly large school located in Edmond, Oklahoma that handed out 1 masters’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Gerontology at UCO

3

University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region. University of North Texas is a large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 1 masters’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of North Texas Gerontology Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Gerontology

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.

Credits

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