2024 Best Meeting and Event Planning Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
18Associate Degrees
Meeting and Event Planning isn't the most popular associate program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #441 in popularity out of 1020 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Meeting and Event Planning Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 18 associate degrees in meeting and event planning during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Meeting and Event Planning School for Your Associate Degree
The meeting and event planning associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality meeting and event planning program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to meeting and event planning students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other meeting and event planning students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized meeting and event planning related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for meeting and event planning students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Meeting and Event Planning Schools
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 the Best Meeting and Event Planning Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.
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Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).