2024 Best Insurance Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
34Master's Degrees
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in insurance. It is ranked #243 out of 343 major degree programs in terms of popularity. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of insurance. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 34 master's degrees in insurance during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Insurance School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of insurance for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on insurance students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other insurance students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for insurance to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized insurance related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for insurance students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Insurance Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Insurance in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in insurance.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Insurance
Olivet College is a great decision for students interested in a master's degree in insurance. Located in the rural area of Olivet, Olivet is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.More information about a master’s in insurance from Olivet College
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).