2024 Best Meeting and Event Planning Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
389Meeting and Event Planning Degrees Awarded
Meeting and Event Planning is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #522 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for meeting and event planning students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 389 degrees in meeting and event planning to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Meeting and Event Planning School
The meeting and event planning program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Meeting and Event Planning rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for meeting and event planning schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Meeting and Event Planning Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Meeting and Event Planning Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Meeting and Event Planning in the Southeast Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the meeting and event planning degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southeast Region Schools in Meeting and Event Planning
It is difficult to beat University of Central Florida if you want to pursue a degree in meeting and event planning. Located in the large suburb of Orlando, UCF is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #193 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UCF is a great university overall.
There were roughly 247 meeting and event planning students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent year we have data available.
Lynn University is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in meeting and event planning. Located in the small city of Boca Raton, Lynn University Fighting Knights is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 43rd out of 77 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were about 3 meeting and event planning students who graduated with this degree at Lynn University Fighting Knights in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in meeting and event planning needs to check out High Point University. High Point is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of High Point. This university ranks 18th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were approximately 21 meeting and event planning students who graduated with this degree at High Point in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The meeting and event planning program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Meeting and Event Planning rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for meeting and event planning schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
