2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$35,200
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Meeting and Event Planning is the 522nd most popular major in the country with 989 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree meeting and event planning students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major that were part of this year’s ranking, San Diego State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in San Diego, California, and it awarded 12 masters’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at SDSU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major list. NYU is a private not-for-profit institution located in New York, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 13 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at NYU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major list. Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is a large school located in Indianapolis, Indiana that handed out 5 masters’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
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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
- *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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