K-State PhD Personal Financial Planning

I haven't been posted here in a while, but thought I'd pass along this new hybrid PhD from Kansas State University with an emphasis in Personal Financial Planning:

http://www.ipfp.k-state.edu/programs/doctoral/

• $451/Cr.
• 91 Credits (less with a masters)
• 10-day summer residencies
• Optional for a Dissertation or 3 Papers for publication.

 

Now, this is interesting to me. What would you do with a PhD in Financial Planning? Is this for someone who is a successful planner but wants to teach?

 

I presume it is geared toward preparing one for acadamia. There is no lack of creditials (CFA, CFP, ChFC, CPA, PFS, etc) as a practitioner.

http://www.ipfp.k-state.edu/programs/doctoral/how-does-it-work.php

 

It doesn't seem to be offered through their business department, so I'm assuming it's not covered under AACSB.

 

What can one does with a degree in Personal Finance? For the Ph.D, besides teaching and what else?

 

Whatever you want - research and consulting come to mind. Same as any other subject I suppose.

 

I've seen these degrees offered through departments other than the business school. For example:
http://apps.depts.ttu.edu/pfp//
http://gradschool.missouri.edu/programs/catalog/personal-financial-planning/

 

Cool! Thanks for passing along the information!

 

Are the TTU and Mizzou programs DL or B&M?

 

Ted,

The Mizzou program is part of the inter-institutional online option. So i guess, it is available online. K-State is also one of the universities in this program.

http://pfp.missouri.edu/programs.htm

Not sure about TTU.

 

The inter-institutional program? Is that the one called the Great Plains IDEA program that started out with the just the master's (but not the doctorate ... until now) and includes Kansas State, Montana State, and a bunch of others?

 

Ted,

Yes it is.

I should have also mentioned that, as per the website, only the MS program at Mizzou is online. They do not mention about the PhD as being available online.

The other universities are Iowa State, North Dakota State, South Dakota State, Montana State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of Nebraska.