2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across California, there were 72 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 financial planning and services graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the financial planning and services program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 a Master’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $75-$110k) in California

#1

California Lutheran University

Thousand Oaks, California

#1 in overall quality

$20,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, California Lutheran University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Thousand Oaks, California, and it awarded 18 masters’s financial planning degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CLU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Master’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at California Lutheran University are $20,600, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Financial Planning & Services at CLU

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $75-$110k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (Income $75-$110k)

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.

Credits

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

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