2022 Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering Science is the 208th most popular major in the country with 1,668 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,800 and had an average of $20,111 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 15 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering science. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the engineering science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa

The colleges and universities below are the best for iowa bachelor’s degree engineering science students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science in Iowa

#1

Dordt University

Sioux Center, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$25,102 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dordt University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa list. Sioux Center, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering science degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Dordt not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. The yearly cost to attend Dordt University is $25,102 for iowa bachelor’s degree engineering science students.

The low student loan default rate of 1.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering Science at Dordt University

#2

Wartburg College

Waverly, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$21,787 Average Net Price

$60,320 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Wartburg College landed the #2 spot on the list. Wartburg is a small school located in Waverly, Iowa that handed out 9 bachelors’s engineering science degrees in 2019-2020.

Wartburg not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. The yearly cost to attend Wartburg is $21,787 for Iowa Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Science students.

The low student loan default rate of 4.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering Science at Wartburg

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science in the Plains States Region
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Notes and References

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicolás Pérez.

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