2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning (Income $30-$48k) in District of Columbia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Meeting and Event Planning is the 507th most popular major in the country with 977 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across District of Columbia, there were 31 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality meeting and event planning programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the meeting and event planning program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning (Income $30-$48k) in District of Columbia

#1

George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$17,924 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. GWU is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 31 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2019-2020.

GWU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. The yearly cost to attend George Washington University is $17,924 for district of columbia bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning (Income $30-$48k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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