2024 Best Actuarial Science Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
41Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in actuarial science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #257 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for actuarial science students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 41 master's degrees in actuarial science to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Actuarial Science School for Your Master's Degree
The actuarial science master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality actuarial science program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to actuarial science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of actuarial science students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized actuarial science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for actuarial science students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Actuarial Science Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Actuarial Science in the Great Lakes Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in actuarial science.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Actuarial Science
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).