2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 New England region, there were 42 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,964 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 New England Region”.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Gerontology in the New England Region

1

University of Massachusetts - Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

$49,964 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Boston landed the #1 spot on the list. UMass Boston is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 17 masters’s gerontology degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Gerontology at University of Massachusetts - Boston

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University of Saint Joseph
West Hartford, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Saint Joseph. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the New England Region. USJ is located in West Hartford, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s gerontology degrees to qualified students.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.

Full USJ Gerontology Report

• Most Focused 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

• *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.