You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in construction trades. It is ranked #34 out of 38 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
There was only one school in Iowa to review for the 2025 Best Construction Trades Schools in Iowa ranking.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Construction Trades Schools in Iowa ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the construction trades degrees they offer, see the list below.
Northwest Iowa Community College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in construction trades. Northwest Iowa Community College is a small public college located in the town of Sheldon.
Construction Trades degree recipients from Northwest Iowa Community College receive an earnings boost of around $36,132 above the typical income of construction trades graduates.
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).
