2021 Best Affordable Colleges in Iowa for Students from Ecuador

1 Colleges

$25,446 Avg Tuition & Fees*

47% Avg 4-Year Grad Rate*

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Value Colleges for Ecuadorian Students in Iowa ranking is part of that endeavor.

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Top Value College in Iowa for Students from Ecuador

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

Iowa State University
Ames, IA

$25,446 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

8.1% International Students

Iowa State University tops this year’s ranking as the best value school for Ecuadorian students in Iowa. Iowa State is a large public school situated in Ames, Iowa. It awarded 6,998 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 8.1% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at Iowa State are China, India, and Malaysia. International students at Iowa State can expect to pay, on average, about $25,446 a year to attend the school. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $26,948 per year.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 1 schools only.

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%.

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