El Paso, TX (population: 631,862) has three event management schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. Texas Tech University, the highest ranked school in this group with an event management program, has a total student population of 30,049. It is the 150th highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Event Management students from El Paso 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 El Paso area alone, there are 30 employed emergency management specialists earning an average salary of $45,260. Management employees in this area earn $81,000/yr and there are 9,620 employed.
El Paso lies in El Paso county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the El Paso area has 269,250 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 2.0% unemployment rate, $16.37/hr average worker wage, and a $34,050 average annual salary. Thus, about 35.739 out of every 1000 jobs in El Paso are held by management employees, and 0.124/1000 are held by emergency management specialists.
Of the 3 event management schools with a 500-mile radius of El Paso, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Texas Tech University comes out as the most expensive ($10,763/yr) for event management students, with Arizona State University as the lowest, reported at only $9,603/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from El Paso |
| Las Cruces | NM | 95,663 | 3 | 29.6043 | 193 | 38.7 miles |
| Alamogordo | NM | - | 2 | 15.3602 | 50 | 77.8 miles |