2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking.

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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the financial planning and services program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,530 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lubbock, Texas, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s financial planning degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Tech University are $17,530, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Financial Planning & Services at Texas Tech University

• Best Value Doctor’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.

Credits

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

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