Department of Personal Financial Planning

About the Department
Program Offerings & Course Descriptions

Vickie Hampton, Ph.D., Chairperson

Professors: Hampton, James
Associate Professors: Gilliam, Huston, Kalenkoski, Katz, Lauderdale, Salter
Assistant Professors: Asebedo, Browning
Professor of Practice: Evensky
Instructors: Barnhill

CONTACT INFORMATION: 260 Human Sciences Bldg., 1301 Akron Ave., Box 41210, Lubbock, TX 79409-1210, T 806.742.5050, F 806.742.5033, www.depts.ttu.edu/pfp

About the Department

The Department of Personal Financial Planning offers classes leading to the following degrees:

Bachelor of Science in Personal Financial Planning
Master of Science in Personal Financial Planning
Doctor of Philosophy in Personal Financial Planning
Graduate Certificate in Charitable Financial Planning
Graduate Certificate in Personal Financial Planning

Dual Degree Program

Master of Science in Personal Financial Planning/Master of Business Administration
Master of Science in Personal Financial Planning/Master of Science in Accounting
Master of Science in Personal Financial Planning/Doctor of Jurisprudence

Mission and Vision. The mission of the Department of Personal Financial Planning is to educate students to the highest standards of excellence; foster intellectual, ethical, and personal development; and generate the highest quality of meaningful research.

The department will excel as the national leader in higher education in personal financial planning, manifesting excellence, inspiring confidence, and engaging the financial planning profession and society at large.

The Department of Personal Financial Planning will do the following:

Achieve and maintain national recognition as the premier financial planning program, attracting the highest quality students and faculty.
Prepare students to be leaders, decision-makers, and scholars who are highly competent, articulate, ethical, principled, innovative, and confident in financial planning.
Generate quality research thus expanding the boundaries of knowledge in financial planning.
Promote excellence in scholarly and professional organizations through faculty service in leadership roles.

Undergraduate and graduate degree programs in personal financial planning are registered by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board). The term CFP® identifies a financial planning professional who has met educational standards, passed the CFP® Certification Examination, satisfied a work experience requirement, and agreed to the CFP Board’s Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility. The terms CFP® and Certified Financial Planner™ represent the most respected professional certification in the financial planning profession.

Accelerated Bachelor’s-to-Master’s Degree Program. The accelerated bachelor’s-to-master’s degree program allows academically capable students to accelerate their undergraduate degree programs, begin graduate work in their fourth year, and finish both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a total of approximately five-and-a-half years. This is accomplished by allowing 6 hours of graduate coursework in personal financial planning to count toward both the undergraduate degree and the master’s degree.

Graduate Program

For information on graduate programs offered by the Department of Personal Financial Planning, visit the Graduate School section of the catalog.

Program Offerings & Course Descriptions

Programs

Bachelor’s

Personal Financial Planning, B.S.

Undergraduate Minor

Courses

Personal Finance (Undergraduate Courses)

Personal Financial Planning (Undergraduate Courses)