2023 Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region for an Associate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Great Lakes region, there were 306 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,599 and $21,667 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 12 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in gerontology. To top this list, a school must have a successful gerontology program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree gerontology students.

Top 5 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Gerontology in the Great Lakes Region

1

Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College
Shell Lake, Wisconsin

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region for an Associate. Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College is a small school located in Shell Lake, Wisconsin that handed out 7 associates’s gerontology 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.

Full Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College Gerontology Report

2

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Green Bay, Wisconsin

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region for an Associate. Northeast Wisconsin Technical College is a fairly large school located in Green Bay, Wisconsin that handed out 5 associates’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Gerontology at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

3

Manchester University
North Manchester, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Manchester University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region for an Associate list. This small school is located in North Manchester, Indiana, and it awarded 0 associates’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Manchester University Gerontology Report

3

Stark State College
North Canton, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stark State College. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region for an Associate. Located in North Canton, Ohio, this fairly large public school handed out 35 degrees to qualified associates’s gerontology students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Gerontology at Stark State College

3

Madonna University
Livonia, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Madonna University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Great Lakes Region for an Associate list. Madonna University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Livonia, Michigan. It awarded 7 associates’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Madonna University Gerontology Report

• Most Popular Associate 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.