2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Nebraska

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Nebraska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Nebraska, there were 33 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,387 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,581 and $29,351 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Nebraska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in gerontology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their gerontology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Nebraska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Nebraska”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gerontology in Nebraska

1

University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska

#5 overall quality in Nebraska

$33,387 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Nebraska list. University of Nebraska at Omaha is a fairly large school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 14 bachelors’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Gerontology at University of Nebraska at Omaha

2

University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 overall quality in Nebraska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this large public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s gerontology students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Gerontology at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.