2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult Development & Aging in the Plains States Region

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Adult Development & Aging is the 877th most popular major in the country with 297 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 15 adult development & aging graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 adult development & aging graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in adult development & aging. That schools that top this list have a program in adult development & aging in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree adult development and aging students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Adult Development & Aging in the Plains States Region

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Wichita State University
Wichita, Kansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wichita State University landed the #1 spot on the list. WSU is a fairly large public school situated in Wichita, Kansas. It awarded 13 masters’s adult development and aging degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.

Read full report on Adult Development & Aging at WSU

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Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Minnesota State University - Mankato. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Plains States Region. Mankato, Minnesota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s adult development and aging degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Adult Development & Aging at Minnesota State Mankato

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.

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