2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Far Western US Region

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Financial Planning & Services is the 430th most popular major in the country with 1,136 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 87 financial planning & services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 financial planning & services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in financial planning & services. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their financial planning & services program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree financial planning students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Financial Planning & Services in the Far Western US Region

1

George Fox University
Newberg, Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Fox University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Newberg, Oregon, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s financial planning students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full George Fox University Financial Planning & Services Report

2

Central Washington University
Ellensburg, Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Far Western US Region. This medium-sized school is located in Ellensburg, Washington, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s financial planning degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Financial Planning & Services at CWU

3

University of San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Top 15% overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of San Francisco. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Financial Planning Major in the Far Western US Region list. San Francisco, California is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s financial planning degrees to 15 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Financial Planning & Services at USFCA

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.