2024 Best Financial Planning & Services Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
3,084Financial Planning Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in financial planning & services, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #430 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Financial Planning & Services Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,084 degrees in financial planning & services during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Financial Planning & Services School
The financial planning program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Financial Planning & Services rankings. We derive our Best Overall Financial Planning & Services School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Financial Planning & Services Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Financial Planning & Services Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Whether you're looking to enter the field or change careers, SNHU's online financial planning degree can prepare you to pursue a wide range of jobs in finance, insurance, business and banking. The program is ideal for individuals with a solid mix of interpersonal and analytical skills.
Best Schools for Financial Planning & Services in Pennsylvania
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the financial planning degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's hard to beat Temple University if you want to pursue a degree in financial planning & services. Temple is a fairly large public university located in the city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #147 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Temple is a great university overall.
There were roughly 35 financial planning & services students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in financial planning & services needs to check out Saint Joseph's University. Located in the city of Philadelphia, St. Joe's is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 12th out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 9 financial planning & services students who graduated with this degree at St. Joe's in the most recent year we have data available.
Marywood University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in financial planning & services. Marywood is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Scranton. This university ranks 54th out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 10 financial planning & services students who graduated with this degree at Marywood in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The financial planning program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Financial Planning & Services rankings. We derive our Best Overall Financial Planning & Services School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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