2022 Best Value Insurance Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Insurance Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Insurance is the 206th most popular major in the country with 1,811 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, insurance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $57,694 and had an average of $23,336 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Carolina, there were 78 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,300 and $19,930 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 insurance graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,192 and $24,368 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality insurance programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the insurance program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Insurance Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Insurance Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Insurance Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Insurance (Income $30-$48k) in North Carolina

#1

Appalachian State University

Boone, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$9,884 Average Net Price

$52,107 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Appalachian State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Insurance Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Boone, North Carolina, this large public school handed out 78 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s insurance students in 2019-2020.

Appalachian State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Insurance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. It costs about $9,884 for North Carolina Bachelor’s Degree Insurance students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Appalachian State University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Insurance at Appalachian State University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Insurance (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Insurance (Income $30-$48k)

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Youngson.

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