2023 Best Value Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in New York (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 in New York For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 989 people earned their degree in meeting and event planning, making the major the 522nd most popular in the United States.

Across New York, there were 33 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools in New York For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in meeting and event planning. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great meeting and event planning programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the meeting and event planning program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 in New York For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools in New York For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools in New York For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in New York (With Aid)

1

SUNY Delhi
Delhi, New York

#2 in overall quality

$15,231 Average Net Price

$38,208 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Delhi. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools in New York For Those Getting Aid. SUNY Delhi is a small school located in Delhi, New York that handed out 12 ’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.

SUNY Delhi not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Schools in New York” list. The yearly cost to attend SUNY Delhi is $15,231 for New York Meeting and Event Planning students with aid.

Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at SUNY Delhi

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New York University
New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$38,569 Average Net Price

$59,064 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New York University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools in New York For Those Getting Aid. New York, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s meeting and event planning degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NYU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Schools in New York” ranking. It costs about $38,569 for New York Meeting and Event Planning students with aid per year to attend New York University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at New York 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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