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Best Value Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa

2023 Best Value Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$11,735 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$54,930 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate School for You

Geography & Cartography is the #142 most popular major in Iowa with 45 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Iowa to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for geography students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Geography & Cartography

Our analysis found Iowa State University to be the best value school for geography and cartography students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Iowa. Iowa State is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Ames.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Iowa State are $11,404 a year.

Iowa State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa list.

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#2

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

Out of the 2 schools in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public school with a very large student population.

Iowa graduate students pay an average of $12,065 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Iowa did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Geography & Cartography Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa list.

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Best Value Geography & Cartography Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Geography & Cartography Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 114
Minnesota 143
Kansas 40
Nebraska 20
North Dakota 10
South Dakota 25

Geography & Cartography is one of 12 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Political Science & Government 49,282
Economics 49,055
Sociology 38,475
General Social Sciences 18,997
International Relations & National Security 14,306

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 Couleur.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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