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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 18,368 people earned their degree in information science, making the major the 56th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $58,848 and had an average of $32,600 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 22 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great information science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the information science program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for iowa bachelor’s degree is students whose families make $0-$30k.

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

#1

Luther College

Decorah, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$16,636 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Luther College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value IS Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k list. Decorah, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s IS degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

Luther did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. The yearly cost to attend Luther is $16,636 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree IS students whose families make $0-$30k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Information Science at Luther College

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