2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Classical & Ancient Studies in Iowa

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In 2020-2021, 275 people earned their degree in classical and ancient studies, making the major the 309th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, classical and ancient studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $26,214 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 13 classical and ancient studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 classical and ancient studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,980 and $30,839 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Classics Major in Iowa” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in classical and ancient studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their classical and ancient studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Classics Major in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Classics Major in Iowa”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Classical & Ancient Studies in Iowa

1

Cornell College
Mount Vernon, Iowa

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Classics Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell College landed the #1 spot on the list. Mount Vernon, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s classics degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

#2 overall quality in Iowa

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Iowa. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Classics Major in Iowa. University of Iowa is a public institution located in Iowa City, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Classical & Ancient Studies 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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

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