2024 Best Gerontology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
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Colleges in the Plains States Region
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Bachelor's Degrees
Gerontology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #468 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for gerontology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 79 bachelor's degrees in gerontology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Gerontology School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The gerontology bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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 bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different 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 - How many other gerontology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
- 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 bachelor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Gerontology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
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Featured Gerontology Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.