by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 1,809 people earned their degree in insurance, making the major the 325th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 118 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 104 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in insurance. That schools that top this list have a program in insurance in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southwest Region list. This fairly large school is located in Edmond, Oklahoma, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s insurance degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 57 bachelors’s insurance degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Downtown. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southwest Region list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s insurance degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southwest Region list. Baylor University is located in Waco, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 bachelors’s insurance degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southwest Region list. SMU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 0 bachelors’s insurance degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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