2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region

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Meeting and Event Planning is the 522nd most popular major in the country with 915 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 189 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 100 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in meeting and event planning. That schools that top this list have a program in meeting and event planning in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in the Plains States Region

1

Stephens College
Columbia, Missouri

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stephens College landed the #1 spot on the list. Stephens is located in Columbia, Missouri and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at Stephens

2

Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

#6 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Ames, Iowa, this large public school handed out 98 degrees to qualified bachelors’s meeting and event planning students in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Meeting and Event Planning at Iowa State University

3

College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, College of the Ozarks landed the #3 spot on the list. College of the Ozarks is located in Point Lookout, Missouri and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to qualified students.

Full College of the Ozarks Meeting and Event Planning Report

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.

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