2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Meeting and Event Planning is the 522nd most popular major in the country with 915 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 90 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in meeting and event planning. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their meeting and event planning program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree meeting and event planning students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Diego State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major. SDSU is located in San Diego, California and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 24 masters’s meeting and event planning degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full San Diego State University Meeting and Event Planning Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major that were part of this year’s ranking, New York University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in New York, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 57 diplomas to qualified masters’s meeting and event planning students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national 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 NYU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Meeting and Event Planning Major. Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, this large public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s meeting and event planning students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Meeting and Event Planning at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
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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%.
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- *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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