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2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $75-$110k

1 Ranked Colleges
1 Degrees Awarded
$27,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Social Work is the 12th most popular major in the country with 57,618 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, social work graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,459 and had an average of $30,084 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 465 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,950 and $28,476 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,469 and $117,729 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality social work 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 social work program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for iowa doctor’s degree social work students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work (Income $75-$110k) in Iowa

#1

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $75-$110k list. Iowa is a large school located in Iowa City, Iowa that handed out 1 doctorate’s social work degrees in 2019-2020.

Iowa also made our “Best Social Work Doctor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Iowa are $27,613.

Read more about Social Work at Iowa

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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