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2023 Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools

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Finding the Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate School for You

Gerontology is the #162 most popular major in the country with 655 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. This report analyzed 29 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best graduate certificate programs for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

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2023 Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

The following schools top our list of the Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Top 10 Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools

Our 2023 rankings named University of Southern California the best school in the United States for gerontology students working on their graduate certificate. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Los Angeles.

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#2

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Kansas State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best gerontology schools in the United States. Located in the city of Manhattan, K -State is a public college with a very large student population.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Columbia University in the City of New York. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools list. Columbia is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the city of Pittsburgh, Pitt is a public college with a very large student population.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools list. IU Bloomington is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Bloomington.

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#6

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA

George Mason University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best graduate certificate gerontology programs. GMU is a very large public school located in the suburb of Fairfax.

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#7

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

Johns Hopkins University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Gerontology Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. Johns Hopkins is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Baltimore.

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#8

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

University of Utah landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best graduate certificate gerontology programs. U of U is a very large public school located in the city of Salt Lake City.

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University of North Texas landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best graduate certificate gerontology programs. UNT is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Denton.

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best graduate certificate gerontology programs. Located in the city of Greensboro, UNC Greensboro is a public college with a large student population.

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Gerontology is one of 36 different types of programs to choose from.

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Behavioral Science 1,358
Computational Science 1,063

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Photo by Chalmers Butterfield.

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