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2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
248 Degrees Awarded
$26,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 977 people earned their degree in meeting and event planning, making the major the 507th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 359 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 248 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in meeting and event planning. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent meeting and event planning programs, but they also cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Orlando, Florida, this large public school awarded 221 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s meeting and event planning students in 2019-2020.

UCF not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $10,274 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students with aid per year to attend UCF.

The low student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at UCF

#2

Meredith College

Raleigh, North Carolina
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Meredith College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Meredith is a small school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 1 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Meredith, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Meredith is $23,683 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at Meredith College

#3

High Point University

High Point, North Carolina
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, High Point University landed the #3 spot on the list. High Point, North Carolina is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

High Point not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $37,255 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students with aid per year to attend High Point.

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%.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at High Point

#4

Lynn University

Boca Raton, Florida
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Lynn University landed the #4 spot on the list. Lynn University Fighting Knights is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boca Raton, Florida. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Lynn University Fighting Knights also made our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for Lynn University is $36,044 for southeast region bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students with aid.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at Lynn University Fighting Knights

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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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