2023 Most Well Attended Project Management Major in North Carolina

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Project Management Major in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Project Management is the 250th most popular major in the country with 4,237 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across North Carolina, there were 67 project management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Project Management Major in North Carolina” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in project management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular project management programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Project Management Major in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina project management students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Project Management in North Carolina

1

Elon University
Elon, North Carolina

#4 overall quality in North Carolina

$53,723 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,633 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Project Management Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Elon University landed the #1 spot on the list. Elon University is a medium-sized school located in Elon, North Carolina that handed out 4 ’s project management degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Elon Project Management Report

2

Meredith College
Raleigh, North Carolina

#13 overall quality in North Carolina

$33,979 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,288 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Meredith College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Project Management Major in North Carolina list. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s project management degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Meredith Project Management Report

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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.