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

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Gerontology is the 485th most popular major in the country with 1,234 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

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

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

1

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas State University is a large public school situated in San Marcos, Texas. It awarded 9 masters’s gerontology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Gerontology at Texas State

2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #2 spot on the list. UCO is a public institution located in Edmond, Oklahoma. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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 Most Well Attended Gerontology Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. University of North Texas is located in Denton, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s gerontology degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full UNT Gerontology Report

• Most Popular 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.