2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across North Carolina, there were 19 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,192 and $24,368 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the meeting and event planning program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The meeting and event planning school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k”.

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Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning (Income $48-$75k) in North Carolina

#1

Meredith College

Raleigh, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$21,878 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Meredith College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k. Meredith College is a small school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 1 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2019-2020.

Meredith not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. The yearly cost to attend Meredith is $21,878 for North Carolina Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students whose families make $48-$75k.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at Meredith College

#2

High Point University

High Point, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$32,115 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend High Point University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in High Point, North Carolina, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 18 degrees to qualified bachelors’s meeting and event planning students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at High Point, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. The yearly cost to attend High Point is $32,115 for North Carolina Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students whose families make $48-$75k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full High Point Meeting and Event Planning Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning (Income $48-$75k)

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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