2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Science Major in Iowa

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Science Major in Iowa” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Computer Science is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 8th of all the majors we analyze. In 2021-2022, 60,631 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across Iowa, there were 769 computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 372 computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,894 and $35,556 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Science Major in Iowa” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in computer science. That schools that top this list have a program in computer science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Science Major in Iowa

The colleges and universities below are the best for iowa master’s degree computer science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer Science in Iowa

1

Maharishi International University
Fairfield, Iowa

#13 overall quality in Iowa

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Science Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Maharishi International University landed the #1 spot on the list. Maharishi International University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Fairfield, Iowa. It awarded 348 masters’s computer science degrees in 2021-2022.

Read full report on Computer Science at Maharishi International University

2

Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

#1 overall quality in Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer Science Major in Iowa list. Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 24 masters’s computer science degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Computer Science at Iowa State University

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.

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