2023 Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Georgia for a Bachelor’s

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Georgia for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Georgia, there were 290 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,907 and $23,114 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 276 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,491 and $29,433 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Georgia for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in insurance. To top this list, a school must have a successful insurance program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Georgia for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia bachelor’s degree insurance students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Insurance in Georgia

1

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

$53,270 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,917 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Georgia for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 233 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s insurance students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 more about Insurance at UGA

2

Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia

#4 overall quality in Georgia

$50,544 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,310 Average Student Debt

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 Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Georgia for a Bachelor’s. Georgia State is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 43 bachelors’s insurance degrees to qualified students.

Full Georgia State Insurance Report

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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

• *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.