Memphis, TN (population: 662,989) has ten event management schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus, the highest ranked school in this group with an event management program, has a total student population of 20,291. It is the 66th highest ranked school in the USA and the 2nd highest in the state of Georgia (#1 is Emory University). To learn more about event management programs in Memphis, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of event management professors at Georgia Institute of Technology such as Yih Long Chang, Alka Citrin, Andrew Cooper, J. Michael Cummins, Mike Cummins, and Lucien Dhooge.
Event Management students from Memphis schools who go on to become event managers, event planners, management specialists, organizational management specialists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 6,116,380 people working as management employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $102,900. Also, Emergency management specialists make on average $56,900 per year and there are about 13,060 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Memphis-MS-AR area alone, there are 30 employed emergency management specialists earning an average salary of $44,020. Management employees in this area earn $90,620/yr and there are 30,530 employed.
Memphis lies in Shelby county, which is one of the 26 counties in Tennessee. Overall, the Memphis-MS-AR area has 605,630 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.2% unemployment rate, $18.93/hr average worker wage, and a $39,380 average annual salary. Thus, about 50.414 out of every 1000 jobs in Memphis are held by management employees, and 0.057/1000 are held by emergency management specialists.
Of the 10 event management schools with a 500-mile radius of Memphis, only 6 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Saint Louis University-Main Campus comes out as the most expensive ($31,255/yr) for event management students, with University of New Orleans as the lowest, reported at only $6,359/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Memphis |
| Southaven | MS | 47,625 | 1 | 27.9087 | 11 | 9.7 miles |
| Bartlett | TN | 47,744 | 0 | - | 0 | 12.3 miles |
| Senatobia | MS | - | 1 | 17.4796 | 114 | 34.1 miles |
| Jonesboro | AR | 66,734 | 1 | 24.4204 | 8 | 62.3 miles |
| State University | AR | - | 1 | 57.8251 | 135 | 63.1 miles |