Financial Planning & Services at Southern Methodist University

If you are interested in studying financial planning and services, you may want to check out the program at Southern Methodist University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SMU is located in Dallas, Texas and approximately 12,373 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in financial planning from SMU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Financial Planning & Services section at the bottom of this page.

SMU Financial Planning & Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Planning

SMU Financial Planning & Services Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the financial planning progam at SMU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The financial planning major at SMU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Financial Planning & Services. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
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	1
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	18
	40
	50
	52

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in financial planning from SMU. This is the #18 most popular school for financial planning master’s degree candidates in the country.

Financial Planning Student Demographics at SMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the financial planning majors at Southern Methodist University.

SMU Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 60% of financial planning bachelor's degrees went to men and 40% went to women. The typical financial planning bachelor's degree program is made up of only 28% women. So female students are more repesented at SMU since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 69% more racial-ethnic minorities in its financial planning bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's in financial planning.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

SMU also has a doctoral program available in financial planning. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Finance

Careers That Financial Planning Grads May Go Into

A degree in financial planning can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Southern Methodist University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	43,170	$85,720
Personal Financial Advisors	10,830	$110,820
Business Professors	6,060	$110,450
Credit Counselors	2,120	$46,160

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Jeffrey Beall under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.