2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Insurance in the Southeast Region

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Insurance is the 201st most popular major in the country with 1,809 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Southeast region, there were 781 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,361 and $22,946 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in insurance. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their insurance program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Insurance in the Southeast Region

1

Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

#23 overall quality in Southeast

$96,878 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southeast Region. Tallahassee, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s insurance degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%.

Read full report on Insurance at Florida State

2

Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Insurance Major in the Southeast Region. Georgia State is a public institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 43 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Insurance at Georgia State

• 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Youngson.