2022 Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,815 people earned their degree in food science, making the major the 283rd most popular in the United States.

Across Iowa, there were 65 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 food science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent food science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the food science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science (Income $0-$30k) in Iowa

#1

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$10,054 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Food Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Iowa State University is a public institution located in Ames, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 52 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Iowa State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Food Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. It costs about $10,054 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree Food Sciences students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Iowa State.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Iowa State Food Science Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science (Income $0-$30k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Food Science (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Muhammad Irshad Ansari.

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