2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
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Meeting and Event Planning is the 507th most popular major in the country with 977 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
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” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in meeting and event planning. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great meeting and event planning programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the meeting and event planning program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students.
Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. UCF is located in Orlando, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 221 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to qualified students.
UCF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Central Florida is $10,274 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. 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%.
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 the Southeast Region 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.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at High Point, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for High Point University is $37,255 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Meredith College landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2019-2020.
Meredith not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Meredith College is $23,683 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lynn University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Boca Raton, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.
Lynn University Fighting Knights also took the #4 spot in our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Lynn University Fighting Knights is $36,044 for southeast region bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students.
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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%.
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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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