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

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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 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 “Most Well Attended Insurance Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in insurance. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in insurance.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Insurance Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular 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

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Insurance Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tallahassee, Florida, and it awarded 21 masters’s insurance degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Insurance at Florida State University

2

Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Insurance Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this large public school handed out 43 degrees to qualified masters’s insurance students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Insurance at Georgia State University

• Most Popular 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.