2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Actuarial Science in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Actuarial Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Actuarial Science is the 274th most popular major in the country with 2,065 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 92 actuarial science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 actuarial science graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent actuarial science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the actuarial science program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Actuarial Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Actuarial Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Actuarial Science in the Southwest Region

#1

The University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$28,610 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Actuarial Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Dallas landed the #1 spot on the list. Richardson, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s actuarial science degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region master’s degree actuarial science students list, UT Dallas has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Actuarial Science Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UT Dallas are $28,610, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Actuarial Science at The University of Texas at Dallas

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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