2022 Best Value Investments and Securities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Investments and Securities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 299 people earned their degree in investments and securities, making the major the 905th most popular in the United States.

Across Iowa, there were 27 investments and securities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 investments and securities graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the investments and securities program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Investments and Securities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Investments and Securities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k

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

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

#1

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$10,757 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Investments and Securities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, this medium-sized public school handed out 27 degrees to qualified bachelors’s investments and securities students in 2019-2020.

UNI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Investments and Securities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. It costs about $10,757 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree Investments and Securities students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UNI.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Investments and Securities at UNI

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