Actuarial Science at Baruch College

If you are interested in studying actuarial science, you may want to check out the program at Baruch College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Baruch is located in New York, New York and approximately 18,029 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,974 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College in 2019, 55 of them were actuarial science majors.

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.

Baruch Actuarial Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Actuarial Science

Baruch Actuarial Science Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the actuarial science progam at Baruch 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 Baruch 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
Most Popular Actuarial Science Schools	15
Best Actuarial Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	75
Best Actuarial Science Schools	84

Actuarial Science Student Demographics at Baruch

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

Baruch Actuarial Science Bachelor’s Program

Of the 55 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science from Baruch in 2018-2019, 53% were men and 47% were women. The typical actuarial science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% women. So female students are more repesented at Baruch since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 37% 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 Baruch College with a bachelor's in actuarial science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	21
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	19
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Baruch also has a doctoral program available in actuarial science. In 2019, 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 NY, the home state for Baruch College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Business Professors	8,910	$110,500
Insurance Underwriters	8,430	$92,810
Actuaries	2,320	$150,950

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 Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.