You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in California for a Doctorate. Located in Los Angeles, California, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified doctorate’s gerontology students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.