2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 55 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in financial planning and services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent financial planning and services programs, but they also cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree financial planning students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$15,016 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s financial planning students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Arizona, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Arizona is $15,016 for southwest region bachelor’s degree financial planning students.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Financial Planning & Services at University of Arizona

#2

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$36,222 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This fairly large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s financial planning degrees in 2019-2020.

SMU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SMU is $36,222 for southwest region bachelor’s degree financial planning students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Financial Planning & Services at SMU

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services

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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