Insurance isn't the most popular bachelor's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #146 in popularity out of 363 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual reviewed 10 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of insurance. Combined, these schools handed out 655 bachelor's degrees in insurance to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Insurance School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of insurance for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality insurance program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various 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 insurance students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of insurance students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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 insurance 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 insurance related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for insurance students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Insurance Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in insurance has to look into University of Georgia. UGA is a very large public university located in the city of Athens.
Bachelor's recipients from the insurance program at University of Georgia earn $8,896 more than the average college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
It's difficult to beat Florida State University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in insurance. Florida State is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Tallahassee.
Bachelor's recipients from the insurance degree program at Florida State University earn $5,836 more than the standard college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in insurance has to check out University of South Carolina - Columbia. Located in the midsize city of Columbia, UofSC is a public university with a very large student population.
Insurance bachelor's degree recipients from University of South Carolina - Columbia earn a boost of approximately $8,182 above the average income of insurance majors.
It is hard to beat Georgia State University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in insurance. Georgia State is a very large public university located in the city of Atlanta.
Insurance bachelor's degree recipients from Georgia State University earn a boost of about $2,714 above the typical income of insurance majors.
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).