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2023 Best Value Educational Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$8,882 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$73,937 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Educational Administration Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, educational administration students earned 340 degrees and certificates from an Iowa school, making the subject the 3rd in the state.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for teaching students. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Educational Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Iowa to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for education admin students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

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

2023 Best Value Educational Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for education admin majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Educational Administration

#1

Northwestern College

Orange City, IA

Our analysis found Northwestern College to be the best value school for educational administration students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Iowa. Located in the town of Orange City, NWC is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at NWC are $6,360 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Educational Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa list. Iowa State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Ames.

Iowa State graduate students pay an average of $11,404 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Iowa State also took the #1 spot in our Best Educational Administration Graduate Certificate Schools in Iowa rankings.

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#3

Upper Iowa University

Fayette, IA

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Upper Iowa University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value educational administration schools in Iowa. Located in the remote area of Fayette, UIU is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UIU are $19,685 a 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 education admin in Iowa.

Full Educational Administration at Upper Iowa University Report

Best Value Educational Administration Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Educational Administration Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 1,509
Kansas 646
Minnesota 1,314
South Dakota 158
North Dakota 136
Nebraska 782

One of 14 majors within the teaching area of study, educational administration has other similar majors worth exploring.

Education Admin Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
General Educational Leadership & Administration 32,837
Higher Education/Higher Education Administration 4,709
Other Educational Administration & Supervision 2,247
Educational, Instructional, & Curriculum Supervision 1,727
Elementary & Middle School Administration/Principalship 1,572
Superintendency & Educational System Administration 1,107
Urban Education & Leadership 736
Adult & Continuing Education Administration 462
Secondary School Administration/Principalship 452
Community College Education 354
Administration of Special Education 186
Early Childhood Program Administration 70
International School Administration/Leadership 10

Majors Similar to Education Admin

Related Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Teacher Education Subject Specific 43,297
Special Education 36,792
General Education 29,810
Curriculum & Instruction 19,832

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 Shai-WMIL.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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