2024 Best Value Financial Planning Schools in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Financial Planning Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Financial Planning & Services is the 430th most popular major in the country with 4,087 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 74 financial planning & services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Financial Planning Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in financial planning & services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent financial planning & services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the financial planning & services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Financial Planning Schools in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region financial planning students.
Top 3 Best Value Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Financial Planning Schools in the Southwest Region. Lubbock, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s financial planning degrees to 53 students in 2020-2021.
Texas Tech also took the #2 spot in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas Tech is $16,194 for southwest region financial planning students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Financial Planning & Services at Texas Tech University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Financial Planning Schools in the Southwest Region. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s financial planning degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
University of Arizona also took the #3 spot in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Arizona is $13,358 for southwest region financial planning students.
Read full report on Financial Planning & Services at University of Arizona
Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Financial Planning Schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #3 spot on the list. SMU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 5 ’s financial planning degrees in 2020-2021.
SMU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SMU is $38,208 for Southwest Region Financial Planning students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Financial Planning & Services at SMU
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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
- *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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