Actuarial Science at Drexel University

If you plan to study actuarial science, take a look at what Drexel University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Drexel is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 23,589.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Actuarial Science section at the bottom of this page.

Drexel Actuarial Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Actuarial Science
• Master’s Degree in Actuarial Science

Online Classes Are Available at Drexel

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Drexel offers distance education options for actuarial science at the following degree levels:

Drexel Actuarial Science Rankings

The actuarial science major at Drexel is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Actuarial Science. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Actuarial Science Student Demographics at Drexel

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the actuarial science majors at Drexel University.

Drexel Actuarial Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 58% of actuarial science bachelor's degrees went to men and 42% went to women. The typical actuarial science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 40% women. So female students are more repesented at Drexel since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% more racial-ethnic minorities in its actuarial science bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Drexel University with a bachelor's in actuarial science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	16
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	7
International Students	18
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Drexel Actuarial Science Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 45% of actuarial science master's degrees went to men and 55% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Drexel University with a master's in actuarial science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	6
International Students	11
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Business Statistics
• Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
• Management Science

Careers That Actuarial Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in actuarial science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for Drexel University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Business Professors	5,490	$91,520
Insurance Underwriters	4,640	$77,300
Actuaries	1,610	$120,090

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.