by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Meeting and Event Planning is the 522nd most popular major in the country with 989 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 126 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 42 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in meeting and event planning. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their meeting and event planning program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Delhi. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Delhi, New York, this small public school handed out 11 degrees to qualified bachelors’s meeting and event planning students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at SUNY Delhi
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania College of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Penn College is a small school located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania that handed out 6 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at Penn College
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #3 spot on the list. GWU is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 25 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Temple University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Temple is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
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