Texas Tech University

Personal Financial Planning

Become a University Professor through Graduate Studies at TTU

Just as there is a large and increasing demand for practitioners in personal financial planning, there is also a healthy demand for qualified professors with PhDs to teach and conduct research in financial planning in colleges and universities. Texas Tech University has the first Ph.D. program in the nation registered by CFP Board, and the only Ph.D. program with 9 full-time tenure-track faculty focused solely on research and teaching personal financial planning.

The Ph.D. program is an on-campus curriculum designed to prepare graduates for careers as effective university researchers and teachers or for senior research positions in a variety of settings.  A hybrid modality with online and face-to-face requirements might be in place by Fall 2022; however, this is not guaranteed. If you are interested in an online format, please reach out to Dr. Sarah Asebedo. We can discuss your needs and how we might accommodate an online format beginning in Fall 2022 until our new modality is approved. The program is designed to include rigorous coursework in theoretical and research skills including statistics, research methods, economic and financial theory, academic writing, and preparation of proposals and research papers. Graduates with a doctoral degree in PFP from Texas Tech have a unique background in both research and applied financial planning. Candidates for the doctoral degree must demonstrate extensive research, expertise in a particular field of knowledge, and the ability to do independent high-quality research and to present the results of their research in the form of a dissertation. The program is a minimum of 60 hours of collateral courses and 12 hours of dissertation past the bachelor's degree.