2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in the Southeast Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” 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 the Southeast region, there were 389 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 273 meeting and event planning graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in meeting and event planning. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular meeting and event planning programs in the United States.
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Most Well Attended Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree meeting and event planning students.
Top 4 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Meeting and Event Planning in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s. University of Central Florida is located in Orlando, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 247 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UCF Meeting and Event Planning Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, High Point University landed the #2 spot on the list. High Point University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in High Point, North Carolina. It awarded 21 bachelors’s meeting and event planning degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full High Point University Meeting and Event Planning Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lynn University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Boca Raton, Florida, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s meeting and event planning students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Lynn University Fighting Knights Meeting and Event Planning Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Meredith College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Meeting and Event Planning Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Meredith is a private not-for-profit institution located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
Full Meredith College Meeting and Event Planning Report
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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
- *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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