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• MSU offers a degree in Family Financial Planning is in Health and Human Development with an option in Family Financial Planning through the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance.
  
  
• The program also is conducted in cooperation with the Board of Standards for the Certified Financial Planner® program and allows students to take the exam for the Certified Financial Planner® at the end of the program of study.
  
  
• The entire program will be delivered through distance education and will involve a consortium of six state universities, including MSU.
  
  
• The degree requires 42 credits.
  
  
• The program is designed to be a part-time program for fully or partially employed students.
  
  
• Approximately two to three 3-credit courses will be taken from each of the six state universities and each course will be priced at the rate charged by each participating university.

The program, consisting of 42 semester credit-hours, will take approximately three years to complete.  There will be a regular sequencing of classes; therefore, if you must temporarily stop classes you may be able, if space is available, to join a later cohort.  Because the program consists of specific courses, it is not likely you can transfer credits into the program.

As long as there is interest, a new cohort will start each fall.  If you are not admitted because a cohort is full, you may renew your application for the following year.

• Complete an application for admission to the College of Graduate Studies at MSU.  Their web address is:  www.montana.edu/wwwdg.
• Submit $50 application fee for online application, or $60 for hard copy application.
• Submit one transcript of all college work completed to date.
• Send a brief résumé and a statement of goals, including previous education, professional experience, and plans following completion of the degree.
• Three letters of recommendation.
• No GRE is required

When materials have been received, the graduate committee at MSU will process your application and contact you with their decision.  You may receive one of four decisions

1. full admission
2. full admission, on a waiting list
3. no admission
4. conditional admission, subject to resolving deficiencies

• Iowa State University
• Kansas State University
• University of Nebraska
• North Dakota State University
• Oklahoma State University
• South Dakota State University
  

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