2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gerontology in Oregon

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Gerontology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,226 people earned their degree in gerontology, making the major the 247th most popular in the United States. 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 Oregon, there were 79 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the gerontology program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Gerontology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Gerontology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Gerontology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gerontology in Oregon

#1

Western Oregon University

Monmouth, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$19,315 Average Net Price

$35,060 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Oregon University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Gerontology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon list. Monmouth, Oregon is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s gerontology degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

Western Oregon State College also made our “Best Gerontology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $19,315 for Oregon Bachelor’s Degree Gerontology students per year to attend Western Oregon University.

Read full report on Gerontology at Western Oregon University

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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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