2022 Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid

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

Across the Far Western US region, there were 73 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 $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great financial planning and services programs and 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 Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Financial Planning Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Far Western US Region (With Aid)

#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 the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, California Lutheran University landed the #1 spot on the list. California Lutheran University is located in Thousand Oaks, California and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 18 masters’s financial planning degrees to qualified students.

CLU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Financial Planning & Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at CLU are $20,600, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Financial Planning & Services at CLU

• Best Value Master’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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.

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