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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in Iowa (With Aid)

1 Ranked Colleges
105 Degrees Awarded
$15,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor's in Iowa For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 977 people earned their degree in meeting and event planning, making the major the 507th most popular in the United States.

Across Iowa, there were 174 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 105 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the meeting and event planning program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The meeting and event planning school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid”.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in Iowa (With Aid)

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to 105 students in 2019-2020.

Iowa State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. It costs about $15,496 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students with aid per year to attend Iowa State University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at Iowa State University

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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

  • *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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