You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Bachelor's Degree in gerontology. It is ranked #238 out of 363 major degree programs in terms of popularity. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of gerontology. Combined, these schools handed out 61 bachelor's degrees in gerontology to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Gerontology School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The gerontology bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to gerontology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other gerontology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt gerontology students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized gerontology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for gerontology students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Gerontology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Gerontology in the Far Western US Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in gerontology.
Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Gerontology
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in gerontology has to look into California State University - Sacramento. Sac State is a very large public university located in the large city of Sacramento.
Bachelor's recipients from the gerontology major at California State University - Sacramento get $2,378 above the typical college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).