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2023 Best Value Psychology Associate Degree Schools in Iowa

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$28,638 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$21,435 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Psychology Associate Degree School for You

With 1,444 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, psychology is the #11 most popular major in Iowa.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Psychology Associate Degree Schools in Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Iowa to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for psychology students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Psychology Associate Degree Schools in Iowa

Check out the psychology associate degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Psychology

#1

Waldorf University

Forest City, IA

Our 2023 rankings named Waldorf University the best value school in Iowa for psychology students working on their associate degree. Waldorf is a small private for-profit school located in the remote town of Forest City.

Waldorf undergraduate students pay an average of $23,666 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Waldorf is ranked #1 for overall quality for psychology in Iowa.

Read full report on Psychology at Waldorf University

#2

Upper Iowa University

Fayette, IA

The excellent associate degree programs at Upper Iowa University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value psychology schools in Iowa. Located in the rural area of Fayette, UIU is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UIU are $33,609 a year.

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Best Value Psychology Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 1,451
Minnesota 6,179
South Dakota 328
Missouri 3,062
Nebraska 994
North Dakota 369

Psychology Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
General Psychology 141,695
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 33,758
Child Development & Psychology 17,542
Other Psychology 2,683

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 327,871
Social Sciences 205,984
Communication & Journalism 120,571
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences 55,820
History 32,731

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 Nevit Dilmen.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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