Actuarial Science at University of Delaware

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

UD is located in Newark, Delaware and approximately 23,613 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 students received a bachelor's degree in actuarial science from UD.

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.

UD Actuarial Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Actuarial Science

UD Actuarial Science Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the actuarial science progam at UD compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The actuarial science major at UD 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	17
	18
	24
	32
	36
	75

Actuarial Science Student Demographics at UD

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

UD Actuarial Science Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 actuarial science majors earned their bachelor's degree from UD. Of these graduates, 47% were men and 53% were women. The typical actuarial science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 41% women. So female students are more repesented at UD since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in actuarial science at UD 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 University of Delaware with a bachelor's in actuarial science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	10
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Business Statistics
• Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods

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 DE, the home state for University of Delaware.

Occupation	Jobs in DE	Average Salary in DE
Insurance Underwriters	150	$67,330

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 Ottawa80 at English Wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.