2023 Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Iowa

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

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 or bootcamp 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 Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.

Top Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Iowa

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Dordt University

Sioux Center, Iowa

1 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Iowa

$33,590 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Dordt University to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a associate degree in Iowa. Sioux Center, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associate degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Dordt are $33,590 per year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Dordt does offer online classes for certain majors. During the 2019-2020 year, about 29% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Dordt is ranked #1 for overall quality in Iowa.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages 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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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