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2022 Best Value Colleges for Insurance in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

6 Ranked Colleges
86 Degrees Awarded
$15,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,811 people earned their degree in insurance, making the major the 206th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, insurance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $57,694 and had an average of $23,336 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 86 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,800 and $22,210 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in insurance. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality insurance programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the insurance program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region insurance students with aid.

Top 6 Best Value Colleges for Insurance in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Rio Salado College

Tempe, Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rio Salado College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Rio Salado College is a fairly large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 12 ’s insurance degrees in 2019-2020.

Rio Salado College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Rio Salado College is $9,320 for Southwest Region Insurance students with aid.

Read more about Insurance at Rio Salado College

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Denton, Texas, this large public school handed out 34 degrees to qualified ’s insurance students in 2019-2020.

UNT also took the #3 spot in our “Best Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $15,086 for southwest region insurance students with aid per year to attend UNT.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full University of North Texas Insurance Report

#3

Glendale Community College

Glendale, Arizona

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Glendale Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Glendale, Arizona, this fairly large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified ’s insurance students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Glendale Community College, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $8,597 for southwest region insurance students with aid per year to attend Glendale Community College.

Read more about Insurance at Glendale Community College

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston - Downtown landed the #4 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s insurance degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

UH Downtown also took the #6 spot in our “Best Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Houston - Downtown is $6,848 for Southwest Region Insurance students with aid.

Full University of Houston - Downtown Insurance Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. UCO is located in Edmond, Oklahoma and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 19 ’s insurance degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southwest region insurance students with aid list, UCO has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Central Oklahoma is $16,562 for Southwest Region Insurance students with aid.

Read more about Insurance at UCO

#6

Baylor University

Waco, Texas

Baylor University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Waco, Texas, and it awarded 12 ’s insurance degrees in 2019-2020.

Baylor also took the #2 spot in our “Best Insurance Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Baylor is $36,039 for Southwest Region Insurance students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Insurance at Baylor

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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