American College of Financial Services

About American College of Financial Services

The American College of Financial Services is a private, nonprofit online university focused on professional training for financial practitioners. It offers many designation, certification, licensing, and master's degree programs for professionals either in or seeking to enter the financial services industry. The college lists over 200,000 alumni across financial services. The college was founded as The American College of Life Underwriters in 1927 by Solomon S. Huebner of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Huebner was a professional involved in the development of economic theory. His theory of human life value is used in the field of insurance. It was his vision for a college-level professional education program for insurance agents that led to the creation of the college. When the college began, programs focused exclusively on providing education to life insurance professionals; the Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation was the first credential offered by the college. Today, the college provides training for financial professionals in various fields including retirement income planning, tax planning, philanthropic planning, special needs planning, and ed

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