by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Gerontology is the 485th most popular major in the country with 1,234 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 42 gerontology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 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.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.
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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 “Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the New England Region for a Master’s”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the New England Region for a Master’s”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the New England Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Boston landed the #1 spot on the list. UMass Boston is a fairly large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 17 masters’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Gerontology at University of Massachusetts - Boston
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 Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the New England Region for a Master’s. Located in West Hartford, Connecticut, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s gerontology students 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%. 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.
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