2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Financial Planning & Services is the 471st most popular major in the country with 3,544 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 73 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality financial planning and services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the financial planning and services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree financial planning students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $48-$75k) in the Far Western US Region

#1

California Lutheran University

Thousand Oaks, California

#1 in overall quality

$20,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, California Lutheran University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Thousand Oaks, California, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 18 degrees to qualified masters’s financial planning students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CLU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at California Lutheran University are $20,600.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $48-$75k)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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