2021 Best Colleges in Iowa for Students from Singapore

It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for international students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Singaporean Students in Iowa ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

We analyzed 2 colleges and universities across Iowa to determine which were the best for Singaporean students in Iowa. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality of the school, number of total international students at the school, and the percentage of international students on campus - to make this determination.

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Top Colleges in Iowa for Students from Singapore

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Iowa State University
Ames, IA

$25,446 Avg Tuition & Fees

8.1% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named Iowa State University the best school for Singaporean students in Iowa working on their bachelor’s degree. Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6,998 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.

International students make up 8.1% of the total student body at the school. The top three countries sending students to study at Iowa State are China, India, and Malaysia.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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2

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

$31,905 Avg Tuition & Fees

5.9% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Iowa. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Located in Iowa City, Iowa, the large public school handed out 5,998 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 5.9% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as China, South Korea, and India come to Iowa to study.

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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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.