2022 Best Value Gerontology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest 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 a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 the Southwest region, there were 8 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great gerontology programs and 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank Gerontology Schools

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 a Master’s in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Gerontology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree gerontology students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Gerontology in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,040 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Gerontology Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas State University is located in San Marcos, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 masters’s gerontology degrees to qualified students.

Texas State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Gerontology Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas State are $17,040, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Gerontology at Texas State University

• Best Value Master’s 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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