Financial Planning & Services at University of Wisconsin - Madison

If you plan to study financial planning and services, take a look at what University of Wisconsin - Madison has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UW - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and has a total student population of 44,640. Of the 2,300 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2021, 112 of them were financial planning and services majors.

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.

UW - Madison Financial Planning & Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Planning

UW - Madison Financial Planning & Services Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the financial planning progam at UW - Madison 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 UW - Madison 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.

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Financial Planning Student Demographics at UW - Madison

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

UW - Madison Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 112 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in financial planning from UW - Madison. About 66% were men and 34% were women. The typical financial planning bachelor's degree program is made up of only 28% women. So female students are more repesented at UW - Madison since its program graduates 6% more women than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in financial planning at UW - Madison are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% 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 University of Wisconsin - Madison with a bachelor's in financial planning.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	79
International Students	11
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

UW - Madison 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 WI, the home state for University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Occupation	Jobs in WI	Average Salary in WI
Personal Financial Advisors	4,730	$115,820
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	4,240	$77,780
Business Professors	1,210	$104,290
Credit Counselors	640	$39,860

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 Czar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.