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*Becoming a Certified Financial Planner

Students in this specialization enhance personal financial knowledge, complete a master's degree or a certificate program and develop competencies that can lead to the Certified Financial Planner designation by the CFP International Board of Standards. The program focuses on the efforts of households to improve their economic well-being through effective use of resources, and on the economic and social systems that enhance or constrain these efforts. The degree prepares students for further graduate study or for work in human services, Cooperative Extension, the private sector or the public sector. If you enjoy working with people and with numbers, consider the Family Financial Planning master's program or graduate certificate within the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies. This online financial planning curriculum lets you do course work when it's convenient for you. You can complete a master's degree or graduate certificate by taking courses that help you enhance your personal financial knowledge. It could lead to professional certification by the CPF Board of Standards.

The program was developed by Great Plains IDEA, a consortium of ten Midwestern universities, including the University of Nebraska. You can complete the program through any of the participating universities. When you select the University of Nebraska, you will take classes from the other participating universities: Iowa State, Kansas State, Montana State, North Dakota State, Oklahoma State University, and South Dakota State. Your credits from those institutions will be placed on your NU transcript.

Students in this program will:

• Apply a systems approach in working with individuals and families relative to financial management
• Integrate financial planning content areas (housing & real estate, insurance, investments, personal income taxation, retirement, and estate planning) into the development of financial plans and targeted financial planning recommendations that meet specific individual and family need sets
• Effectively apply verbal, written, and graphic communication and presentation skills to client presentations
• Synthesize and integrate complex and conflicting information sources into cohesive, defendable recommendations for clients
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Prepare for a career in:

• Insurance
• Real estate
• Investments
• Retirement
• Tax and estate planning
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Graduate Faculty: Online family financial planning courses are taught by the best faculty in the discipline from several universities including: Iowa State University, Kansas State University, North Dakota State University, Oklahoma State University, South Dakota State University, University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Course Requirements
The master's degree program requires 42 semester credit hours. Most students complete the master's program in three years while working a full-time job. The degree, a Master of Science in Child, Youth and Family Studies with a specialization in Family Financial Planning, is made up of the six courses for the certificate program as well as the following courses:

CYAF 820 Family Economics
CYAF 822 Financial Counseling
CYAF 824 Fundmentals of Financial Planning
CYAF 835 Professional Practices in Financial Planning
CYAF 841 Housing/Real Estate
CYAF 881 Family Systems
CYAF 897B Practicum in Family Financial Planning (6 credits)
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