Help me with a descision about school (see details)?

Is the certification school legit? Sometimes those places look all nice, but they’re not reputable.
Your best bet is to always have a bachelors, that looks the best. But, if you can get away with it, I’d go with the certification.

@casheroo Yea, it seems legit
here is the website

Certainly a Bachelor’s in Business will be helpful to an event planner or anyone who plans to run a business. If the certification program is legit, and you pursue that, what would stop you from working as an event planner and continuing to get your degree in business?

@Darwin I’m sure I could do that in the future (work and go to school). Right now I’d be happy with just doing one of the two.

Thing is, if the Bachelor’s is online it should be relatively easy to work at it when you can, as opposed to actually going to a school.

I suggest getting the certification, getting started in the business, and then completing the Bachelor’s.

@Darwin That’s what I was thinking

Finish your degree. Do that as soon as you can because going back is harder the longer you put it off.

If your goal is really to be an event planner, I say go for the certification now. If your goal is to run your own events planning business, you should also take some specific classes to help you learn how to run a small business. Getting the degree will be far less important if you are planning on working for yourself.

The event planners I know have degrees in communications. Most started by working at non-profits and got their paying jobs because of volunteer experience. I’m not sure what value a certificate would be without work experience.

experience is key

I think @augustlan is right – the key question is where you ultimately want to be working.

It seems like if you want to get a job as the event planner for a hotel or a conference center, the certification is probably the best way to go, since that’s what they’ll be looking for when they’re hiring. Also, from looking at that website, it seems like the certification specifically prepares you for that sort of job, not necessarily for working as an individual event planner.

If you want to run your own event planning business, you’d probably get more out of taking the business classes (whether you do the whole degree or not) and getting some experience working with other event planners. I know several people who own their own event/wedding planning businesses, and none of them have a certification. What they do have is good business sense and a lot of experience in the various aspects of event planning. If this is what you want to do, I’d go out and work for someone who’s already in the events industry for a while – you’ll learn a ton, and it’ll be way more fun than going to school for a certificate!

I would go back to school 3 more years seems like a lot but well worth it in this economy while people are losing their jobs you would need at least a Bachelors degree. I have been out of school for about 25yrs and Yes it is harder the longer you wait I wish I didn’t wait so long but I got married started a family. I supported myself and helped with the family bills and exenses by being self employed, which is harder now with this economy I am enrolled whith the University of Phoenix online and they are Regionally Accredited
I’m just starting over again, and I wish I didn’t wait so long.