2025 Best Computer Information Systems Master's Degree Schools in Iowa

Computer Information Systems is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #9 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Iowa to determine which ones were the best for computer information systems students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 149 master's degrees in computer information systems during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on computer information systems students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other computer information systems students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt computer information systems students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized computer information systems related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for computer information systems students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Computer Information Systems Schools

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 Computer Information Systems Master's Degree Schools in Iowa list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Computer Information Systems in Iowa

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in computer information systems.

Top Iowa Schools for a Master's in CIS

1

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

26 Annual Graduates

University of Iowa is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in computer information systems. Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in computer information systems from University of Iowa

2

Iowa State University
Ames, IA

123 Annual Graduates

Iowa State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in computer information systems. Iowa State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Ames.More information about a master’s in computer information systems from Iowa State University

Best Computer Information Systems Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Computer Information Systems Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	193	321
Minnesota	174	164
Kansas	149	61
Nebraska	123	67
South Dakota	89	76

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Computer Information Systems Related Rankings by Major

Computer Information Systems is one of 10 different types of Computer & Information Sciences programs to choose from.

CIS Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Information Technology	123
General Computer & Information Sciences	26

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Computer Science	363
Computer Programming	42
Information Technology	18

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.