2023 Best Value Education Associate Degree Schools in Iowa

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Education Associate Degree School for You

Education is one of the most popular subjects to study in Iowa. With 3,392 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 4th out of all the majors we track in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Education Associate Degree Schools in Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Check out the education associate degree programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Education Associate Degree School

#1

Dordt University

Sioux Center, IA

1 Associate Degrees

#3 in Quality in Iowa

$33,590 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Dordt University to be the best value school for education students who want to pursue a associate degree in Iowa. Located in the town of Sioux Center, Dordt is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Dordt are $33,590 a year.

Dordt also made our Best Education Associate Degree Schools in Iowa list, coming in at #3.

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Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Horadrim.

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