2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Southwest Region
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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 the Southwest region, there were 74 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in financial planning and services. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their financial planning and services program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree financial planning students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s financial planning students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Financial Planning & Services at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 5 masters’s financial planning degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Read more about Financial Planning & Services at Southern Methodist University
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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%.
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- *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.
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