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2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k

5 Ranked Colleges
41 Degrees Awarded
$7,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Meeting and Event Planning is the 507th most popular major in the country with 977 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 188 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 41 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in meeting and event planning. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality meeting and event planning programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the meeting and event planning program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 5 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning (Income $30-$48k) in the Great Lakes Region

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sinclair Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Sinclair Community College is a fairly large public school situated in Dayton, Ohio. It awarded 15 associates’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2019-2020.

Sinclair Community College also made our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Sinclair Community College is $3,113 for great lakes region associate degree meeting and event planning students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at Sinclair Community College

#2

Madison Area Technical College

Madison, Wisconsin
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Madison Area Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s meeting and event planning degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Madison College also made our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Madison Area Technical College is $8,584 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Meeting and Event Planning students whose families make $30-$48k.

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#3

Milwaukee Area Technical College

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Milwaukee Area Technical College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this fairly large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified associates’s meeting and event planning students in 2019-2020.

MATC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Milwaukee Area Technical College is $8,353 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Meeting and Event Planning students whose families make $30-$48k.

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#4

Fox Valley Technical College

Appleton, Wisconsin
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Fox Valley Technical College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. This fairly large school is located in Appleton, Wisconsin, and it awarded 8 associates’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2019-2020.

FVTC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $9,371 for great lakes region associate degree meeting and event planning students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend FVTC.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at Fox Valley Technical College

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. NWTC is located in Green Bay, Wisconsin and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 associates’s meeting and event planning degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our great lakes region associate degree meeting and event planning students whose families make $30-$48k list, NWTC has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $9,201 for great lakes region associate degree meeting and event planning students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend NWTC.

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Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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