2022 Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 184 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 113 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 the Plains States Region”.

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Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in the Plains States Region

#1

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$15,496 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Iowa State University is a public institution located in Ames, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 105 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Iowa State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $15,496 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students 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 full report on Meeting and Event Planning at Iowa State

#2

Stephens College

Columbia, Missouri

#2 in overall quality

$22,337 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stephens College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Meeting and Event Planning Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Columbia, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Stephens did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $22,337 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Meeting and Event Planning students per year to attend Stephens College.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at Stephens

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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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