Insurance at University of Houston - Downtown

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

UH Downtown is located in Houston, Texas and approximately 15,239 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 students received a bachelor's degree in insurance from UH Downtown.

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

UH Downtown Insurance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Insurance

Online Classes Are Available at UH Downtown

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

UH Downtown does offer online education options in insurance for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UH Downtown Insurance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks insurance programs across the country. The following shows how UH Downtown performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The insurance major at UH Downtown 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Online Insurance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Most Popular Insurance Schools	30
	43

Insurance Student Demographics at UH Downtown

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

UH Downtown Insurance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 insurance majors earned their bachelor's degree from UH Downtown. Of these graduates, 47% were men and 53% were women. The typical insurance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% women. So female students are more repesented at UH Downtown since its program graduates 17% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 34% 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 Houston - Downtown with a bachelor's in insurance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	6
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• International Business
• Marketing
• Management Information Systems
• General Business/Commerce
• Finance & Financial Management

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 TX, the home state for University of Houston - Downtown.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Insurance Sales Agents	31,890	$62,760
Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators	23,110	$69,560
Insurance Underwriters	7,560	$68,390
Business Professors	6,060	$110,450
Auto Damage Insurance Appraisers	1,710	$63,780

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 Nick22aku under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.