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2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Iowa

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$5,055 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,663 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering Technologies Undergraduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 665 degrees and certificates were awarded to engineering technologies students who went to a Iowa college or university. This makes it the #18 most popular major in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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.

The Best Value Engineering Technologies Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Iowa ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Iowa to see which undergraduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for engineering tech students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Engineering Technologies Undergraduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Engineering Technologies

Our analysis found Western Iowa Tech Community College to be the best value school for engineering technologies students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in Iowa. Located in the small city of Sioux City, Western Iowa Tech Community College is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Western Iowa Tech Community College are $4,802 a year.

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#2

Kirkwood Community College

Cedar Rapids, IA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Kirkwood Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Technologies Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Iowa list. Kirkwood Community College is a large public school located in the city of Cedar Rapids.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Kirkwood Community College are $5,308 per year.

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Out of the 3 schools in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Des Moines Area Community College landed the # 3 spot on the list. DMACC is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Ankeny.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at DMACC are $5,220 a year.

DMACC also made our Best Engineering Technologies Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Iowa list, coming in at #5.

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Best Value Engineering Technologies Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Engineering Technologies Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 782
Minnesota 872
South Dakota 248
Missouri 1,194
Nebraska 296
North Dakota 358

Engineering Tech Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Industrial Production Technology 11,906
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 10,593
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology 8,964
Environmental Control Technology 8,690
Electronics Engineering Technology 8,592
Engineering-Related Fields 6,736
Mechanical Engineering Technology 6,013
General Engineering Technology 4,676
Construction Engineering Technology 4,330
Quality Control Technology 3,824
Computer Engineering Technology 3,595
Engineering Technology (Other) 1,768
Architectural Engineering Technology 1,290
Energy Systems Technologies 1,256
Civil Engineering Technology 1,187
Engineering-Related Technologies 989
Mining & Petroleum Technology 445
Nuclear Engineering Technology 220
Nanotechnology 114

Majors Similar to Engineering Tech

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 254,454
Engineering 198,468
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 177,778
Mathematics & Statistics 52,396
Physical Sciences 50,306

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools 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 KUKA Systems GmbH.

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