2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Rocky Mountains Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s in the Rocky Mountains 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 52 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Rocky Mountains Region”.

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Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree financial planning students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Montana State University

Bozeman, Montana

#1 in overall quality

$21,446 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region list. MSU Bozeman is a fairly large school located in Bozeman, Montana that handed out 1 masters’s financial planning degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MSU Bozeman, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Montana State University are $21,446.

Read more about Financial Planning & Services at Montana State University

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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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