2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” 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 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.

This year’s “Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the financial planning and services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree financial planning students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

University of North Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$9,606 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 Getting Aid 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 not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $9,606 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Financial Planning students with aid per year to attend University of North Florida.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Financial Planning & Services at UNF

#2

Freed-Hardeman University

Henderson, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$16,703 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 Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Freed-Hardeman University landed the #2 spot on the list. Henderson, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s financial planning degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

FHU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $16,703 for southeast region bachelor’s degree financial planning students with aid per year to attend Freed-Hardeman University.

Read full report on Financial Planning & Services at FHU

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services (With Aid)

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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