2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Gerontology (Income $30-$48k)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking.

Gerontology is the 247th most popular major in the country with 1,226 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, gerontology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $37,786 and had an average of $32,628 in loans still to pay off.

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

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent gerontology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the gerontology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Gerontology (Income $30-$48k)

#1

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

Green Bay, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$9,201 Average Net Price

$32,925 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Green Bay, Wisconsin is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s gerontology degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

NWTC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Gerontology Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $9,201 for associate degree gerontology students whose families make $30-$48k 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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