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Personal Financial Planning: Master’s Degree Distance Program
A master’s degree in personal financial planning will enhance your personal financial knowledge and strengthen your marketability in the financial industry. Personal financial planners help families and individuals understand financial products, how they work, and how families can better adapt to events that impact family economics, such as births, marriages, divorce, disability, retirement, death and skyrocketing college tuition costs. Graduates primarily work in corporations or independent firms. Be qualified to show your clients the money!
How It Works
Students enter the program by completing the first six courses within the K-State Certificate Program in Personal Financial Planning. After completing the certificate program, students are eligible to sit for the CFP® Certification Examination. This should take approximately 14 months.
Upon successful completion of the certificate program, students flow into the inter-institutional master’s degree offered through the Great Plains IDEA for their remaining 24 credit hours. The program is designed so working professionals should be able to complete the entire program in a minimum of three years while employed full-time. Full-time students can complete the program more quickly.