2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate

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

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in financial planning and services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality financial planning and services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the financial planning and services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services

#1

Community College of Rhode Island

Warwick, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$5,878 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Community College of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate. Community College of Rhode Island is located in Warwick, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 associates’s financial planning degrees to qualified students.

CCRI not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Financial Planning & Services Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $5,878 for associate degree financial planning students per year to attend CCRI.

Read full report on Financial Planning & Services at CCRI

#2

Berkeley College - New York

New York, New York

#2 in overall quality

$15,783 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Berkeley College - New York. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate. Berkeley College - New York is a small private for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 4 associates’s financial planning degrees in 2019-2020.

Berkeley College - New York not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Financial Planning & Services Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $15,783 for associate degree financial planning students per year to attend Berkeley College - New York.

Read more about Financial Planning & Services at Berkeley College - New York

#3

Langston University

Langston, Oklahoma

#3 in overall quality

$12,131 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Langston University landed the #3 spot on the list. Langston, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s financial planning degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Langston University also made our “Best Financial Planning & Services Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Langston University is $12,131 for Associate Degree Financial Planning students.

Full Langston University Financial Planning & Services Report

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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