2022 Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making Over $110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering Science is the 208th most popular major in the country with 1,668 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,800 and had an average of $20,111 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 15 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

This year’s “Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making Over $110k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering science. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the engineering science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science (Income Over $110k) in Iowa

#1

Dordt University

Sioux Center, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$25,102 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dordt University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making Over $110k list. Sioux Center, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering science degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Dordt also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Dordt University is $25,102 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Science students whose families make more than $110k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Dordt University Engineering Science Report

#2

Wartburg College

Waverly, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$21,787 Average Net Price

$60,320 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wartburg College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa For Those Making Over $110k. Waverly, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering science degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

Wartburg also took the #2 spot in our “Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Wartburg is $21,787 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Science students whose families make more than $110k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering Science at Wartburg

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science (Income Over $110k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science (Income Over $110k)

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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