2025 Best Actuarial Science Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
62Bachelor's Degrees
a bachelor's degree in actuarial science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #181 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for actuarial science students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 62 bachelor's degrees in actuarial science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Actuarial Science School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of actuarial science for getting your bachelor'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 ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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 actuarial science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other actuarial science students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor'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.
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 colleges for actuarial science students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Actuarial Science Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Actuarial Science in the Southwest Region
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for actuarial science students seeking a a bachelor's degree.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor'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).