2024 Best Statistics Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa

a bachelor's degree in statistics is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #79 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Iowa to determine which ones were the best for statistics students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 112 bachelor's degrees in statistics to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Statistics School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of statistics for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality stats program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on statistics students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of statistics students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt statistics students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized statistics related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for statistics students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Statistics Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Statistics Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa list, to help you choose the best school for you.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Statistics in Iowa

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in statistics.

Top Iowa Schools for a Bachelor's in Stats

1

Iowa State University
Ames, IA

39 Annual Graduates

$23,625 Median Student Debt

Iowa State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in statistics. Iowa State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Ames.More information about a bachelor’s in statistics from Iowa State University

2

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

54 Annual Graduates

$20,411 Median Student Debt

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in statistics has to check out University of Iowa. Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in statistics from University of Iowa

3

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA

13 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in statistics needs to take a look at University of Northern Iowa. UNI is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Cedar Falls.More information about a bachelor’s in statistics from University of Northern Iowa

Best Statistics Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Statistics Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	228	63
Minnesota	215	242
Kansas	184	13
North Dakota	149	17
South Dakota	148	51

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Rankings in Majors Related to Stats

Statistics is one of 4 different types of Mathematics & Statistics programs to choose from.

Stats Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Statistics	94
Other Statistics	13
Mathematics & Statistics	5

Most Popular Majors Related to Stats

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mathematics	287
Applied Mathematics	6
Other Statistics	1

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 QWFP. More about our data sources and methodologies.