Insurance & Risk Management

Majors & Minors
Insurance & Risk Management

Insurance & Risk Management

You should major in insurance and risk management if:

You’re interested in using an analytical approach to help people and businesses protect what’s important to them.
You like working with numbers and you pay close attention to details.
You want a career advising businesses on how to protect themselves, their employees, and their customers.

Risk management and insurance play a role in every aspect of business operations. You’ll learn how to help individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations, and government agencies with overall risk management, financial planning, property and casualty insurance, employee benefits, and life and health insurance.

In our insurance and risk management program, you’ll take a core of general business courses along with advanced courses in finance and insurance and risk management. Customize your degree and explore your personal interests with one of our minors or concentrations and a range of business electives.

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What's Insurance & Risk Management Like?

Research
Internships
Presentations
Writing
Math
Group work & collaboration

Top 1%

We are among the top 1% of business schools worldwide accredited in both business and accounting by AACSB.

Life as an Insurance & Risk Management Major

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State-of-the-Art Financial Lab

Get hands-on experience managing investment portfolios in the Maraist Financial Services Lab. We have the same technology as the world’s leading banks, corporations, and government agencies. You’ll learn portfolio management, financial strategy and markets, trading, modeling, and business performance analysis — and make investment recommendations for a $100,000 portfolio for the �鶹��ý Lafayette Foundation.

Internships

Earn credits toward your insurance and risk management degree through the Moody College of Business Internship Program. Connect with companies and firms to get on-the-job experience in your field before you graduate.

Partnerships with Professionals

We work closely with insurance and risk management experts across the region. Those connections with professionals directly influence what we teach in the classroom — plus it gives you access to mentors, internship opportunities, and well-paying jobs in the insurance and risk management industry.

Business Secrets LLC

The Business Secrets Living-Learning Community (LLC) connects you with other first-year students who share your interest in business. LLC members live in the same residence hall on campus, take classes together, and participate in events and programs focused on starting and managing a business.

Available Concentrations for Insurance & Risk Management Majors

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Business Analytics

Learn how to collect and analyze data to power strategic business decisions with the business analytics concentration. Courses cover designing database systems, statistical analysis, data mining, and reporting insights.

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Human Resource Management

Learn how to handle employee relations, recruitment and hiring, legal regulations, and compensation management in the human resources concentration. Apply the theories you learn in class during an HR management internship.

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International Business

Combine on-campus international business courses with study abroad opportunities for an international business concentration. Learn how companies operate around the world and prepare for a career at multinational organizations.

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Legal Studies

In the legal studies concentration, take classes in business law and specialized legal topics, such as dispute resolution, contracts, employment law, and consumer protection.

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Professional Sales

Professional sales students excel at national sales competitions, thanks to their experiences at �鶹��ý Lafayette. Learn negotiation and selling tactics as well as B2B marketing. Faculty and industry professionals give feedback in our Northwestern Mutual Sales and Research Lab.

The B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration hosts a week of guest speakers and professional development events for students each fall and spring semester.

City of entrepreneurs

In Lafayette, you’ll find both a booming startup scene and international companies like TABASCO® and Stuller.

Each year, the programs in the Moody College of Business are competitively ranked at a national level.

Insurance & Risk Management Courses According to Students

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ECON 201: Principles of Macroeconomics

Most of it is theoretical, not application, but you need to understand the theory to understand the application. And now when I’m reading econ articles, I understand what they’re saying and I can follow along and interpret it properly.”

Dave Martin, Marketing Major

MGMT 320: Management of Behavior and Organizations

The course looked at things like styles of leadership, personality psychology, case studies of great business leaders in action, and more. There isn't one best leadership style — it's connecting and caring about your colleagues and coworkers and working to bring the best out of them."

Austin Sonnier, Finance Major

INSR 492: Seminar in Business Risk Management

At the end of the semester, we got to present a risk management proposal that we actually did on a real business. I’ve been able to take things I’ve made in class and go to job interviews and show off what I did. That was really fulfilling.”

Connor Bowen, Insurance and Risk Management Major

Careers in Insurance & Risk Management

Colby Allen is an insurance and risk management alum from the University of �鶹��ý at Lafayette.

Colby T. Allen

“There were several people I met in class who gave a guest lecture that I ended up working with on a professional level once I entered my career. Having their business card already in my inventory made it easier to bridge those connections later down the road.”

Insurance and Risk Management

Project Manager at McGriff Insurance

Learn more about Colby T. Allen

Jobs in Insurance and Risk Management

Owner & Financial Planner
Insurance Underwriter
Risk Analyst
Risk Manager
Claims Adjuster
Insurance Adjuster
Insurance Agent

Program Requirements

Admissions Requirements

To major in insurance and risk management, you must meet the University's admissions requirements.
See the full admission requirements.

Graduation Requirements

All insurance and risk management majors must complete 120 credit hours and pass all selected courses with a C or higher to graduate.

See all course requirements in the University catalog:

To earn a minor in insurance and risk management, you must take at least 18 credit hours of insurance and risk management courses. At least 6 hours need to be at the 300/400 level.

Students in any major can earn a business minor. Business majors can apply with the Moody Business Office of Student Services by email. Non-business majors will need to contact the Dean’s Office of their college. See requirements above for an insurance and risk management minor or check out another business minor:

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