2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 3,544 people earned their degree in financial planning and services, making the major the 471st most popular in the United States.

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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The financial planning school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k”.

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Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree financial planning students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $75-$110k) 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 $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, California Lutheran University landed the #1 spot on the list. Thousand Oaks, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s financial planning degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

CLU also made our “Best Financial Planning & Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at CLU are $20,600, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $75-$110k)

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.

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