2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Financial Planning & Services is the 471st most popular major in the country with 3,544 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 55 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent financial planning and services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the financial planning and services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree financial planning students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Langston University

Langston, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$11,152 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Financial Planning Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Langston University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Langston, Oklahoma, and it awarded 1 associates’s financial planning degrees in 2019-2020.

Langston University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Financial Planning & Services Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $11,152 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Financial Planning students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Langston University.

Read full report on Financial Planning & Services at Langston University

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.

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