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Financial Planning & Services at Western Michigan University

Financial Planning & Services at Western Michigan University

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

WMU is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan and approximately 19,887 students attend the school each year.

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.

WMU Financial Planning & Services Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Planning

WMU Financial Planning & Services Rankings

The financial planning major at WMU 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.

Financial Planning Student Demographics at WMU

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

WMU Financial Planning & Services Bachelor’s Program

36% Women
14% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 64% of financial planning bachelor's degrees went to men and 36% went to women. The typical financial planning bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% women. So female students are more repesented at WMU since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

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About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in financial planning at WMU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% 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 Western Michigan University with a bachelor's in financial planning.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 18
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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 MI, the home state for Western Michigan University.

Occupation Jobs in MI Average Salary in MI
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 8,670 $79,320
Personal Financial Advisors 5,210 $102,010
Business Professors 2,350 $107,140
Credit Counselors 920 $48,340

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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