2023 Best Value Health Sciences & Services Schools in Iowa
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Health Sciences & Services School for You
In 2020-2021, 55 degrees and certificates were awarded to health sciences and services students who went to a Iowa college or university. This makes it the #126 most popular major in the state.
Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Health Sciences & Services Schools in Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Iowa to see which ones offered the best value programs for health science students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
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. 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.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality in Health Sciences & Services
Our 2023 rankings named Iowa State University the best value school in Iowa for health sciences and services students. Iowa State is a very large public school located in the city of Ames.
Iowa State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,634 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
Iowa State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Health Sciences & Services Schools in Iowa list.
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The excellent programs at Graceland University - Lamoni helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best health sciences and services schools in Iowa. Graceland Lamoni is a small private not-for-profit school located in the rural area of Lamoni.
Graceland Lamoni undergraduate students pay an average of $31,920 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
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Out of the 4 schools in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Luther College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Luther is a small private not-for-profit school located in the remote town of Decorah.
Luther undergraduate students pay an average of $46,760 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Health Science majors at Luther take out an average of $27,000 in student loans while working on their egree.
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Out of the 4 schools in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Clarke University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Dubuque, Clarke is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Clarke are $36,870 a year.
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| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Missouri | 1,081 |
| Minnesota | 401 |
| Kansas | 143 |
| Nebraska | 91 |
| North Dakota | 11 |
| South Dakota | 135 |
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Health Sciences & Services Related Majors for Health Science
One of 30 majors within the area of study, health sciences and services has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Majors Related to Health Science
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Nursing | 322,592 |
| Health & Medical Administrative Services | 89,359 |
| Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services | 84,492 |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 84,274 |
| Allied Health Professions | 82,308 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 4 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 Sandra M. Palumbo.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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