2025 Best Actuarial Science Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
148Actuarial Science Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in actuarial science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #278 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of actuarial science. Combined, these schools handed out 148 degrees in actuarial science to qualified students.
Your choice of actuarial science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Actuarial Science School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Schools in the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Actuarial Science in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of actuarial science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top New England Region Schools in Actuarial Science
Any student who is interested in actuarial science needs to take a look at Bentley University. Bentley is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Waltham. This university ranks 5th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 33 actuarial science students who graduated with this degree at Bentley in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in actuarial science has to check out Boston University. Boston U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Boston. A Best Colleges rank of #23 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Boston U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 25 actuarial science students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Connecticut is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in actuarial science. Located in the fringe town of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 18 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were roughly 73 actuarial science students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of actuarial science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Actuarial Science School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
