Meeting and Event Planning at Iowa State University

If you are interested in studying meeting and event planning, you may want to check out the program at Iowa State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and approximately 34,992 students attend the school each year. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 106 students received a bachelor's degree in meeting and event planning from Iowa State.

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.

Iowa State Meeting and Event Planning Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Meeting and Event Planning

Iowa State Meeting and Event Planning Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks meeting and event planning programs across the country. The following shows how Iowa State performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The meeting and event planning major at Iowa State 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Most Popular Meeting and Event Planning Schools	2
Best Meeting and Event Planning Schools	6
Most Focused Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Degree Schools	9
Most Focused Meeting and Event Planning Schools	11

Meeting and Event Planning Student Demographics at Iowa State

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

Iowa State Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Program

Of the 106 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Meeting and Event Planning from Iowa State in 2018-2019, 6% were men and 94% were women.

About 87% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in meeting and event planning at Iowa State 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 Iowa State University with a bachelor's in meeting and event planning.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	92
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

Iowa State 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 IA, the home state for Iowa State University.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	830	$44,770

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 Jamo2008 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.