2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Gerontology in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 300 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,300 and $17,604 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality gerontology programs that also have a lower cost than 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.

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 Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree gerontology students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Gerontology in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

Green Bay, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$10,340 Average Net Price

$32,925 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Gerontology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region 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 in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $10,340 for great lakes region associate degree gerontology students per year to attend NWTC.

Read more about Gerontology at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

• Best Value Associate 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

• *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.

Credits

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

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