by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” 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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 103 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,905 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in gerontology. That schools that top this list have a program in gerontology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The gerontology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree gerontology students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend McDaniel College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. McDaniel College is a small school located in Westminster, Maryland that handed out 5 masters’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgetown University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s gerontology students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Widener University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This medium-sized school is located in Chester, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 0 masters’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - Baltimore County. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s gerontology degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hofstra University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Hempstead, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s gerontology degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - Baltimore landed the #3 spot on the list. UMB is a public institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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