Meeting and Event Planning at University of Central Florida

What traits are you looking for in a meeting and event planning school? To help you decide if University of Central Florida is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's meeting and event planning program.

UCF is located in Orlando, Florida and approximately 71,881 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 247 meeting and event planning majors received their bachelor's degree from UCF.

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.

UCF Meeting and Event Planning Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Meeting and Event Planning

UCF Meeting and Event Planning Rankings

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

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 UCF 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.

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Meeting and Event Planning Student Demographics at UCF

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

UCF Meeting and Event Planning Bachelor’s Program

Of the 247 meeting and event planning students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UCF, about 11% were men and 89% were women.

About 66% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in meeting and event planning at UCF are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its meeting and event planning bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	56
White	163
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

UCF also has a doctoral program available in meeting and event planning. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Restaurant/Food Services Management
• 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 FL, the home state for University of Central Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners	7,540	$48,940

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 Breezy Baldwin under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.