Insurance at Northwood University

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

Northwood is located in Midland, Michigan and approximately 2,541 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 6 insurance majors received their bachelor's degree from Northwood.

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

Northwood Insurance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Insurance

Online Classes Are Available at Northwood

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.

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

• Bachelor’s Degree

Northwood Insurance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks insurance programs across the country. The following shows how Northwood 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 Northwood 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
	5
	8
	24

Insurance Student Demographics at Northwood

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

Northwood Insurance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in insurance from Northwood. About 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical insurance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% women. So female students are more repesented at Northwood since its program graduates 14% more women than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in insurance at Northwood are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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

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

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 MI, the home state for Northwood University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Insurance Sales Agents	11,130	$66,910
Business Professors	2,350	$107,140
Auto Damage Insurance Appraisers	220	$61,120

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.