Insurance at University of Georgia

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

UGA is located in Athens, Georgia and has a total student population of 39,147. Of the 8,870 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Georgia in 2021, 233 of them were insurance majors.

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

UGA Insurance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Insurance

UGA Insurance Rankings

The insurance major at UGA is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Insurance. 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.

How Much Do Insurance Graduates from UGA Make?

The median salary of insurance students who receive their bachelor's degree at UGA is $53,270. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 1% higher than the national average of $52,997 for all insurance bachelor's degree recipients.

Insurance Student Demographics at UGA

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the insurance majors at University of Georgia.

UGA Insurance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 233 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in insurance from UGA. About 62% were men and 38% were women. The typical insurance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% women. So female students are more repesented at UGA since its program graduates 1% more women than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in insurance at UGA are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its insurance bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	19
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	165
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

UGA also has a doctoral program available in insurance. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Hospitality Management
• General Business/Commerce
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing
• International Business

Careers That Insurance Grads May Go Into

A degree in insurance can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for GA, the home state for University of Georgia.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Insurance Sales Agents	11,990	$59,940
Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators	9,640	$65,430
Insurance Underwriters	6,020	$81,290
Business Professors	1,930	$94,670
Auto Damage Insurance Appraisers	500	$69,010

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 Pruddle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.