2023 Most Popular Colleges for Sports Communication in Iowa

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in Iowa” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Sports Communication is the 532nd most popular major in the country with 729 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Iowa, there were 11 sports communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in Iowa” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sports communication. To top this list, a school must have a successful sports communication program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in Iowa

The colleges and universities below are the best for iowa sports communication students.

Top 3 Most Popular Colleges for Sports Communication in Iowa

1

Upper Iowa University
Fayette, Iowa

#12 overall quality in Iowa

$45,288 Average Early-Career Earnings

$33,490 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Upper Iowa University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in Iowa. Fayette, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s sports communication degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Sports Communication at Upper Iowa University

2

Simpson College
Indianola, Iowa

#10 overall quality in Iowa

$41,402 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,380 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Simpson College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in Iowa. Simpson College is a small school located in Indianola, Iowa that handed out 3 ’s sports communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Simpson College Sports Communication Report

3

Grand View University
Des Moines, Iowa

#25 overall quality in Iowa

$39,475 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,116 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand View University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in Iowa list. Grand View University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Des Moines, Iowa. It awarded 1 ’s sports communication degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Sports Communication at Grand View University

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bill Koplitz.