2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog
School of Personal Financial Planning
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Sarah Asebedo, Ph.D., School Director
Professors: Durband, Huston, James
Associate Professors: Asebedo, Browning, Guillemette, Lacombe, Lauderdale
Assistant Professors: Chimbane, Olajide, Reiter
Professor of Practice: Lutter
Associate Professor of Practice: Heckman
Assistant Professors of Practice: Abbott, Jurgenson
Senior Lecturers: Cassady, Wilkinson
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 School
The School of Personal Financial Planning offers classes leading to the following degrees and certificates:
Dual Degree Program
Mission and Vision. The mission of the School 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 School will excel as the national leader in higher education in personal financial planning and personal finance, manifesting excellence, inspiring confidence, and engaging the profession and society at large.
The School of Personal Financial Planning will do the following:
- Achieve and maintain national recognition as the premier 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.
- 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.
The undergraduate degree program in personal finance is registered as an education provider by the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education® (AFCPE) and provides the education requirement to sit for the Accredited Financial Counselor® (AFC®) designation
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 if enrolled full time. This is accomplished by allowing 9 hours of graduate coursework in personal financial planning to count toward both the undergraduate degree and the master’s degree.
Experiential Learning. Students who have taken specific coursework in personal financial planning have an opportunity to implement their skills in a practical setting through participation in outreach programs and student organizations. Student members have an opportunity to accumulate volunteer hours toward professional designations including the CFP® and AFC®.
Red to Black is a Texas Tech University program that provides financial education, coaching, and awareness from students to students through individual coaching sessions, presentations, outreach booths, and resource referrals. There are three levels of student coaching membership: Financial Advocates (must be currently enrolled in or have completed at least one PFP or PFI class), Financial Educators (must be currently enrolled in or have completed PFI 2301/5371), and Financial Coaches (must have completed PFP 3330/5377, PFI 3320 (3321*), PFI 3320/PFI 3322 or PFP 5371). For more information, email Red to Black at redtoblack@ttu.edu.
* PFI 3321 no longer offered.
Knowledge Empowering You (KEY) is an outreach program through the School of Financial Planning that provides financial education to the Lubbock community through group presentations and individual coaching sessions at the Charles Schwab Foundation Personal Financial Planning Clinic. Students must commit to a one-year membership, have a 3.0 cumulative GPA in PFP coursework, and have completed PFI 3322 (undergraduate only) and PFI 2301 /PFP 5371 to become a member and PFI 3320 /PFP 5377 to become a financial coach.
Graduate Program
For information on graduate programs offered by the School of Personal Financial Planning, visit the Graduate Programs section of the catalog.
Undergraduate Program Offerings, Course Descriptions & Curricular Tables
(Click on program for curricular table.)
ProgramsBachelor’sUndergraduate MinorAccelerated Bachelor’s to Master’s DegreeCoursesPFI - Personal Finance (Undergraduate Courses)PFP - Personal Financial Planning (Undergraduate Courses)
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