MSFP
Master of Science in Financial Planning
Interdisciplinary Studies Track
Design a Degree That Aligns With Your Career Goals
If you’re looking for a master’s program as unique as your career path, the MSFP Program’s Interdisciplinary Studies Track gives you the freedom to design it. Whether you want to focus on specific areas of financial planning or leadership, or stack graduate certificates with credits you transfer from your CAP® designation, this track empowers you to tailor your degree to your goals. You’ll build a personalized course of study — and gain the skills you need to build the career you want.
Customize Your Degree.
Design a learning path that reflects your goals, interests, and experience—with the freedom to mix and match from seven graduate-level certificates.
Maximize the Value of What You’ve Already Earned.
Apply prior graduate certificates or your CAP® designation toward your degree to reduce cost and time to completion.
Build a Unique Skill Set That Sets You Apart.
Combine psychology with leadership, advanced technical planning, or business strategy to create a truly differentiated profile.
Explore the Interdisciplinary Studies Track.
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Program Details
*To complete the full program, students must complete ten courses.
What You’ll Learn
You’ll complete 10 courses — nine online and one in-person residency. The online 8-week courses blend guided study with synchronous components including live weekly classes and weekly homework required. During the program, you’ll earn your Financial Psychology Certificate and two additional graduate certificates of your choice. You may instead choose to transfer credit from previously completed graduate certificates or your CAP® designation toward your degree.
MSFP 536 Behavioral Finance
Provides an introduction to behavioral finance research, theory, and introduces important behavioral biases that can be applied in a behaviorally informed approach to client-advisor relationships.
MSFP 591 Financial Psychology
Explores the impact of psychological factors on financial decision-making and how to work with and through those factors for improved client-advisor relationships.
MSFP 592 Financial Therapy and Counseling
Introduces various therapeutic and counseling techniques that can be employed to support clients in making positive changes.
Two Additional Certificates of Your Choice
You’ll complete two additional graduate certificates of your choice. Your options include: Advanced High Net Worth Planning Certificate, Advanced Retirement Planning Certificate, Business Succession Planning Certificate, Estate Planning and Taxation Certificate, Executive Leadership Certificate, and the Organizational Leadership Certificate. Each graduate certificate requires three courses for completion.
Alternatively, you may choose to transfer up to three courses from your CAP® designation.
MSFP 582 Ethical Behaviors in Financial Planning (In-Person Residency)
Join your peers at The College’s headquarters for 2.5 days of valuable networking and hands-on learning where you’ll identify barriers to ethical decision-making, explore models for ethical decision-making, and apply this knowledge to real-world examples.
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