by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Texas 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 Texas, there were 88 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,961 and $18,961 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 88 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s” 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 texas bachelor’s degree insurance students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 57 bachelors’s insurance degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s. Baylor University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Waco, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston - Downtown. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s. Located in Houston, Texas, this fairly large public school awarded 15 degrees to qualified bachelors’s insurance students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Insurance Major in Texas for a Bachelor’s list. Southern Methodist University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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