2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 1,809 people earned their degree in insurance, making the major the 325th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 309 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in insurance. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in insurance.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree insurance students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Insurance in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Saint Peter's University
Jersey City, New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Peter’s University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Saint Peter’s College is located in Jersey City, New Jersey and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 masters’s insurance degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Insurance at Saint Peter’s University

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Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York

#6 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia University in the City of New York landed the #2 spot on the list. Columbia is a large private not-for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 0 masters’s insurance degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Insurance at Columbia University in the City of New York

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Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Temple University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 159 masters’s insurance degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read more about Insurance at Temple University

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St John's University - New York
Queens, New York

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, St John’s University - New York landed the #2 spot on the list. STJ is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Queens, New York. It awarded 47 masters’s insurance degrees 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%.

Read full report on Insurance at St John’s University - New York

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Insurance

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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