2021 Best Colleges in Iowa for Students from Greece

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Greek Students in Iowa ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

After analyzing 2 schools in Iowa, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Greek students in Iowa. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality of the school, number of total international students at the school, and the percentage of international students on campus - to make this determination.

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Top Colleges in Iowa for Students from Greece

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA

$58,648 Avg Tuition & Fees

19.0% International Students

Grinnell College tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Greek students in Iowa. Grinnell is located in Grinnell, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 496 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.

Around 19.0% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at Grinnell are China, India, and South Korea.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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2

Iowa State University
Ames, IA

$25,446 Avg Tuition & Fees

8.1% International Students

Out of the 2 schools in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #2 spot on the list. 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. Students from as far away as China, India, and Malaysia come to Iowa State to study.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.