Financial Planning & Services at Suffolk University

What traits are you looking for in a financial planning school? To help you decide if Suffolk University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's financial planning program.

Suffolk is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 6,830 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 5 financial planning majors received their bachelor's degree from Suffolk.

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.

Suffolk Financial Planning & Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Planning

Suffolk Financial Planning & Services Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The financial planning major at Suffolk 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
	24
	40
	45
	57

Financial Planning Student Demographics at Suffolk

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

Suffolk Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 20% of financial planning bachelor's degrees went to men and 80% 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 Suffolk since its program graduates 52% more women than average.

About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in financial planning at Suffolk are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 29% 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 Suffolk University with a bachelor's in financial planning.

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

Suffolk 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 MA, the home state for Suffolk University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	12,060	$118,310
Personal Financial Advisors	9,060	$128,140
Business Professors	4,050	$126,040
Credit Counselors	1,360	$57,600

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 Oxymoron under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.