2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Actuarial Science in the Southwest Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 2,055 people earned their degree in actuarial science, making the major the 278th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 145 actuarial science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 actuarial science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in actuarial science. That schools that top this list have a program in actuarial science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Actuarial Science in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major 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 4 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full The University of Texas at Dallas Actuarial Science Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Actuarial Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s actuarial science degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Actuarial Science at Arizona State University - Tempe
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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