by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Financial Planning & Services is the 430th most popular major in the country with 4,087 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 3,184 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 73 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer 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.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree financial planning students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American College of Financial Services. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. American College of Financial Services is a medium-sized school located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania that handed out 42 masters’s financial planning degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Marywood University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Marywood University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It awarded 4 masters’s financial planning degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pace University - New York landed the #3 spot on the list. New York, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s financial planning degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Joseph’s University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Saint Joseph’s University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 9 masters’s financial planning degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Molloy College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Molloy is a private not-for-profit institution located in Rockville Centre, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.
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The College of Saint Rose did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, coming in at #6. Saint Rose is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Albany, New York. It awarded 4 masters’s financial planning degrees in 2020-2021.
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Elizabethtown College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Etown is a small school located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania that handed out 0 masters’s financial planning degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
With a ranking of #6, Niagara University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Niagara University is located in Niagara University, New York and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s financial planning degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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With a ranking of #6, Widener University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Chester, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s financial planning students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.
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