Gerontology at San Diego State University

If you plan to study gerontology, take a look at what San Diego State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SDSU is located in San Diego, California and has a total student population of 36,334. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 students received a bachelor's degree in gerontology from SDSU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Gerontology section at the bottom of this page.

SDSU Gerontology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Gerontology

SDSU Gerontology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the gerontology progam at SDSU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The gerontology major at SDSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Gerontology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	56

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in gerontology from SDSU. This is the #38 most popular school for gerontology master’s degree candidates in the country.

Gerontology Student Demographics at SDSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the gerontology majors at San Diego State University.

SDSU Gerontology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 gerontology majors earned their bachelor's degree from SDSU. Of these graduates, 22% were men and 78% were women. The typical gerontology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 15% men. So male students are more repesented at SDSU since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 66% more racial-ethnic minorities in its gerontology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from San Diego State University with a bachelor's in gerontology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

SDSU also has a doctoral program available in gerontology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Computational Science
• Linguistics and Anthropology
• International Studies
• Mathematics & Computer Science
• Nutrition Science

Careers That Gerontology Grads May Go Into

A degree in gerontology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for San Diego State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Medical Scientists	26,080	$102,550
Social Scientists	4,950	$78,970

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Wikipedia User:Geographer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.