2023 Best Value Teaching Doctor's 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.
The Best Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Iowa ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Iowa to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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.
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Top Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Iowa
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Our 2023 rankings named University of Northern Iowa the best value school in Iowa for teaching students working on their doctor’s degree. This medium-sized public school is located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and it awarded 4 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNI are $21,201 a year.
UNI does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In fact, around 67% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
UNI also took the #2 spot in our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Iowa rankings.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Drake University is a great place for teaching students working on their doctor’s degree who want the most bang for their educational buck. Des Moines, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctor’s degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Drake are $11,988 per year.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at Drake. During the 2019-2020 year, about 80% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Drake also took the #1 spot in our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Iowa rankings.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Iowa list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctor’s degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Iowa State are $26,948 a year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Iowa State does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 54% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Iowa State also made our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Iowa list, coming in at #3.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Iowa list. Iowa is a large public school situated in Iowa City, Iowa. It awarded 37 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Iowa graduate students pay an average of $31,012 in tuition and fees each year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Iowa does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 33% took at least some of their classes online.
Iowa also took the #4 spot in our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Iowa rankings.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 4 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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