2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Meeting and Event Planning is the 522nd most popular major in the country with 989 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 152 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 42 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in meeting and event planning. That schools that top this list have a program in meeting and event planning in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree meeting and event planning students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in the Great Lakes Region

1

Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Milwaukee Area Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this fairly large public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified associates’s meeting and event planning students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at Milwaukee Area Technical College

2

Madison Area Technical College
Madison, Wisconsin

Top 10% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Madison Area Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This fairly large school is located in Madison, Wisconsin, and it awarded 9 associates’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at Madison Area Technical College

3

Fox Valley Technical College
Appleton, Wisconsin

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Fox Valley Technical College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Great Lakes Region. FVTC is a fairly large public school situated in Appleton, Wisconsin. It awarded 7 associates’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Fox Valley Technical College Meeting and Event Planning Report

4

Sinclair Community College
Dayton, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sinclair Community College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Dayton, Ohio, this fairly large public school handed out 15 diplomas to qualified associates’s meeting and event planning students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at Sinclair Community College

5

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Green Bay, Wisconsin

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Great Lakes Region list. NWTC is a fairly large school located in Green Bay, Wisconsin that handed out 3 associates’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Meeting and Event Planning Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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