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>Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance, MSU
Montana State University, Bozeman
Family Financial Planning
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Overview
Background
Admission to the MSU Program
How to Register for Classes at Another Institution
Course Materials
Other Participating Universities
Overview
- MSU
offers a degree in Family Financial Planning
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 eight 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.
Background
Working together, the Great Plains Interactive Distance
Education Alliance (GP-IDEA) developed an on-line family
financial planning curriculum (see their Web site at http://www.GPIDEA.org).
This consortium of seven land grant universities allowed
all the participating institutions to join forces to create
a rigorous and complete set of course offerings using the
expertise of over nine Ph.D.-prepared professors. No single
institution in the United States can offer students the
intellectual resources of this consortium. Students must
choose which of the eight institutions will be their “home”
institution, or the one in which the student is officially
enrolled as a graduate student. However, the coursework
and program does not vary by institution. The cost also
does not vary by institution. Students enroll for the courses
at their home institutions, but then will take each course
from one of the eight institutions. Students will take
approximately two courses from each of the institutions.
The student’s advisor will be a faculty member at their
home institution.
Admission to the MSU Program
MSU's requirements
for admission are as follows:
- 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:
- full admission.
- full admission, on a waiting list.
- no admission.
- conditional admission, subject to resolving deficiencies.
How to Register for Classes at
Another
Institution
Each student accepted will
register through their home institution. Please see your
advisor for details.
Course Materials
Textbooks and supplemental materials are the responsibility of
the student.
Other Participating Universities
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