2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy in Iowa (With Aid)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 6,199 people earned their degree in public policy, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, public policy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,077 and had an average of $35,743 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 9 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,298 and $45,299 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the public policy program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy in Iowa (With Aid)

#1

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$22,648 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Policy Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the #1 spot on the list. Cedar Falls, Iowa is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public policy degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

UNI not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Public Policy Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNI are $22,648, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Public Policy at University of Northern Iowa

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy (With Aid)

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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