2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 35 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in financial planning and services. 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The financial planning school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k”.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region

#1

University of North Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$5,942 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. University of North Florida is a fairly large school located in Jacksonville, Florida that handed out 21 bachelors’s financial planning degrees in 2019-2020.

UNF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UNF is $5,942 for southeast region bachelor’s degree financial planning students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.

Read more about Financial Planning & Services at UNF

#2

Freed-Hardeman University

Henderson, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$13,318 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Freed-Hardeman University landed the #2 spot on the list. Freed-Hardeman University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Henderson, Tennessee. It awarded 3 bachelors’s financial planning degrees in 2019-2020.

FHU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $13,318 for southeast region bachelor’s degree financial planning students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Freed-Hardeman University.

Full FHU Financial Planning & Services Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $30-$48k)

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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