2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Gerontology in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,234 people earned their degree in gerontology, making the major the 256th most popular in the United States. 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 Southwest region, there were 11 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Gerontology in the Southwest Region

1

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in San Marcos, Texas, this large public school handed out 9 degrees to qualified masters’s gerontology students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Gerontology at Texas State University

2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #2 spot on the list. UCO is located in Edmond, Oklahoma and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s gerontology degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Gerontology at University of Central Oklahoma

3

University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region. Denton, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s gerontology degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Gerontology at University of North Texas

• 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.