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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in North Carolina (With Aid)

2 Ranked Colleges
19 Degrees Awarded
$30,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor's in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina 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 North Carolina For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in North Carolina (With Aid)

#1

Meredith College

Raleigh, North Carolina
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Meredith College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid list. Meredith College is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to qualified students.

Meredith also made our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Meredith is $23,683 for North Carolina 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

#2

High Point University

High Point, North Carolina
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, High Point University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in High Point, North Carolina, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 18 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s meeting and event planning students in 2019-2020.

High Point not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. It costs about $37,255 for north carolina bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students with aid per year to attend High Point.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at High Point University

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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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