2022 Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 20,721 people earned their degree in general public health, making the major the 42nd most popular in the United States.

Across Iowa, there were 146 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 61 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general public health. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general public health programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general public health program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Public Health in Iowa

#1

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$19,145 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa list. Iowa City, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general public health degrees to 47 students in 2019-2020.

Iowa also made our “Best General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend University of Iowa is $19,145 for iowa bachelor’s degree general public health students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Read more about General Public Health at Iowa

#2

Allen College

Waterloo, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value General Public Health Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Allen College landed the #2 spot on the list. Allen College is a small school located in Waterloo, Iowa that handed out 7 bachelors’s general public health degrees in 2019-2020.

Allen College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best General Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list.

The student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Public Health at Allen College

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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.

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