2025 Best Mathematics & Statistics Schools in Iowa
2Colleges in Iowa
503Mathematics & Statistics Degrees Awarded
$58,257Avg Early-Career Salary
Mathematics & Statistics is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #17 out of the 38 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Iowa to determine which ones were the best for mathematics & statistics students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 503 degrees in mathematics & statistics annually.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mathematics & Statistics Schools in Iowa ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of mathematics & statistics degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student who is interested in mathematics & statistics has to check out University of Iowa. Located in the city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Those mathematics & statistics students who get their degree from University of Iowa receive $2,355 more than the standard mathematics & statistics grad.
Iowa State University is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in mathematics & statistics. Iowa State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Ames.
Graduates who receive their degree from the mathematics & statistics program make around $51,508 for their early career.
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).
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