Meeting and Event Planning at Central Michigan University

Every meeting and event planning school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the meeting and event planning program at Central Michigan University stacks up to those at other schools.

Central Michigan is located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and approximately 21,622 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,415 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University in 2019, 76 of them were meeting and event planning majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Meeting and Event Planning section at the bottom of this page.

Central Michigan Meeting and Event Planning Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Meeting and Event Planning

Central Michigan Meeting and Event Planning Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the meeting and event planning progam at Central Michigan compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The meeting and event planning major at Central Michigan is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Meeting and Event Planning. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Meeting and Event Planning Schools	4
Best Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6

Meeting and Event Planning Student Demographics at Central Michigan

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the meeting and event planning majors at Central Michigan University.

Central Michigan Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Program

Of the 76 meeting and event planning students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2018-2019 from Central Michigan, about 16% were men and 84% were women. The typical meeting and event planning bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at Central Michigan since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

About 86% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in meeting and event planning at Central Michigan are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Central Michigan University with a bachelor's in meeting and event planning.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	65
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Central Michigan also has a doctoral program available in meeting and event planning. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• General Hospitality Administration/Management

Careers That Meeting and Event Planning Grads May Go Into

A degree in meeting and event planning can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MI, the home state for Central Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	2,720	$47,090

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By cjh1452000 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.