by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 1,809 people earned their degree in insurance, making the major the 201st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, insurance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $57,764 and had an average of $24,058 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 419 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,982 and $24,800 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in insurance. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in insurance.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree insurance students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Olivet College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This small school is located in Olivet, Michigan, and it awarded 14 masters’s insurance degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Butler University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Great Lakes Region. This medium-sized school is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and it awarded 18 masters’s insurance degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, 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 86%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Akron Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. Akron, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s insurance degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in Madison, Wisconsin, and it awarded 1 masters’s insurance degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.
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