by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking.
Actuarial Science is the 278th most popular major in the country with 2,206 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 618 actuarial science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 actuarial science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in actuarial science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their actuarial science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree actuarial science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. Ball State is a large school located in Muncie, Indiana that handed out 14 masters’s actuarial science degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roosevelt University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. Roosevelt University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 3 masters’s actuarial science degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a large public school situated in Champaign, Illinois. It awarded 17 masters’s actuarial science degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Columbus, Ohio is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s actuarial science degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Great Lakes Region list. DePaul University is a large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 1 masters’s actuarial science degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.
University of Wisconsin - Madison came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. UW - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 72 masters’s actuarial science degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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