2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 989 people earned their degree in meeting and event planning, making the major the 522nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 200 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 93 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in the Plains States Region

1

Stephens College
Columbia, Missouri

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stephens College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Columbia, Missouri, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at Stephens

2

Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

#6 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 86 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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 full report on Meeting and Event Planning at Iowa State University

3

College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of the Ozarks. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region list. This small school is located in Point Lookout, Missouri, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.

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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

• *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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