2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in Texas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in Texas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 4,087 people earned their degree in financial planning and services, making the major the 430th most popular in the United States.

Across Texas, there were 58 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in financial planning and services. That schools that top this list have a program in financial planning and services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in Texas”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in Texas

1

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#4 overall quality in Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in Texas list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 5 bachelors’s financial planning degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national 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.

Full Southern Methodist University Financial Planning & Services Report

2

Lubbock Christian University
Lubbock, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lubbock Christian University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in Texas list. LCU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lubbock, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full LCU Financial Planning & Services Report

2

Baylor University
Waco, Texas

#6 overall quality in Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #2 spot on the list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s financial planning degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Financial Planning & Services at Baylor University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Southwest Region
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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.