by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Maryland” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Gerontology is the 256th most popular major in the country with 1,234 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, gerontology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $37,380 and had an average of $26,139 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maryland, there were 27 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,642 and $26,517 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in gerontology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Maryland” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Maryland”.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland Global Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. UMGC is a large public school situated in Adelphi, Maryland. It awarded 15 bachelors’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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