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Best Value Gerontology Schools in Florida

2023 Best Value Gerontology Schools in Florida

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$20,490 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$24,858 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Gerontology School for You

With 40 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, gerontology is the #189 most popular major in Florida.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Gerontology Schools in Florida to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Florida to see which programs offered the best value experiences for gerontology students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best Florida Schools for Affordable Quality in Gerontology

$6,410 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Florida - Main Campus the best value school in Florida for gerontology students. USF Tampa is a very large public school located in the city of Tampa.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at USF Tampa are $6,410 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, USF Tampa also is in the top 20% of our Best Gerontology Schools in Florida ranking.

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#2

Nova Southeastern University

Fort Lauderdale, FL
$34,570 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Nova Southeastern University is a great value for gerontology students. Located in the large suburb of Fort Lauderdale, NUS Florida is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at NUS Florida are $34,570 a year.

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Best Value Gerontology Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Gerontology Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 45
Virginia 5
North Carolina 52
Tennessee 5
Kentucky 8
South Carolina 3
Louisiana 8
Arkansas 0
Alabama 0
Mississippi 2
West Virginia 0

One of 44 majors within the area of study, gerontology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 34,975
Biological & Physical Science 30,075
Interdisciplinary Studies 9,074
International Studies 7,368
Nutrition Science 5,330

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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