2025 Best Allied Health Professions Master's Degree Schools in Iowa

If you pursue a master's degree in allied health professions, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #18 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Allied Health Professions Master's Degree Schools in Iowa ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 183 master's degrees in allied health professions during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Allied Health Professions School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of allied health professions for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality allied health program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

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 allied health professions students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of allied health professions students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• 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 allied health professions 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 allied health professions related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for allied health professions students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Allied Health Professions Schools

The allied health school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Allied Health Professions Master's Degree Schools in Iowa.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Allied Health Professions in Iowa

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in allied health professions.

Top Iowa Schools for a Master's in Allied Health

1

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

23 Annual Graduates

$115,313 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in allied health professions needs to take a look at University of Iowa. Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the allied health program earn around $115,313 for their early career.

More information about a master’s in allied health professions from University of Iowa

2

Saint Ambrose University
Davenport, IA

29 Annual Graduates

$117,805 Median Starting Salary

Saint Ambrose University is a great decision for individuals pursuing a master's degree in allied health professions. St. Ambrose University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Davenport.

Those allied health professions students who get their master's degree from Saint Ambrose University earn $2,242 more than the standard allied health grad.

More information about a master’s in allied health professions from Saint Ambrose University

3

Northwestern College
Orange City, IA

24 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Northwestern College if you wish to pursue a master's degree in allied health professions. NWC is a small private not-for-profit college located in the town of Orange City.More information about a master’s in allied health professions from Northwestern College

Best Allied Health Professions Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Allied Health Professions Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	193	341
Minnesota	174	158
Kansas	149	55
Nebraska	123	161
North Dakota	115	40
South Dakota	89	40

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Allied Health Professions Related Rankings by Major

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Allied Health Professions has other similar majors worth exploring.

Allied Health Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Physician Assistant	152
Athletic Training	31

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing	227
Public Health	139
Communication Sciences	107
Mental & Social Health Services	88
Health & Medical Administrative Services	72
Alternative Medicine & Systems	59
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	54
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	26
Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences	20
Medical Illustration & Informatics	19

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.