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2023 Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$11,404 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$54,533 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Curriculum & Instruction Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, curriculum and instruction students earned 129 degrees and certificates from an Iowa school, making the subject the 7th in the state.

Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Iowa to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for curriculum students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Curriculum & Instruction

Our 2023 rankings named Iowa State University the best value school in Iowa for curriculum and instruction students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Ames, Iowa State is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Iowa State are $11,404 per year.

Iowa State also took the #1 spot in our Best Curriculum & Instruction Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa rankings.

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#2

Upper Iowa University

Fayette, IA

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Upper Iowa University is a great value for curriculum and instruction students working on their graduate certificate. UIU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the remote area of Fayette.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UIU are $19,685 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UIU is ranked #3 for overall quality for curriculum in Iowa.

Full Curriculum & Instruction at Upper Iowa University Report

Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 526
Kansas 350
Minnesota 348
South Dakota 54
North Dakota 38
Nebraska 1,161

One of 14 majors within the teaching area of study, curriculum and instruction has other similar majors worth exploring.

Curriculum Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Curriculum & Instruction 19,832

Related Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Educational Administration 46,469
Teacher Education Subject Specific 43,297
Special Education 36,792
General Education 29,810

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Disarnot.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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