Insurance is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #325 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for insurance students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 66 degrees in insurance during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of insurance school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for insurance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Insurance Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of insurance degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's difficult to beat Columbia University in the City of New York if you want to pursue a degree in insurance. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #14 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Columbia is a great university overall.More information about a degree in insurance from Columbia University in the City of New York
Any student pursuing a degree in insurance needs to check out St John's University - New York. STJ is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Queens. This university ranks 41st out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 47 insurance students who graduated with this degree at STJ in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat SUNY Oswego if you want to pursue a degree in insurance. Located in the town of Oswego, SUNY Oswego is a public school with a moderately-sized student population. This school ranks 78th out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 19 insurance students who graduated with this degree at SUNY Oswego in the most recent year we have data available.
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Notes and References
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).
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