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2023 Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Schools in Iowa

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$11,290 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$71,194 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree School for You

With 75 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, finance and financial management is the #35 most popular major in Iowa.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Schools in Iowa ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Iowa to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for finance students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Finance & Financial Management

Our 2023 rankings named Iowa State University the best value school in Iowa for finance and financial management students working on their master’s degree. Iowa State is a very large public school located in the city of Ames.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Iowa State are $11,404 per year.

Read full report on Finance & Financial Management at Iowa State University

#2

Mount Mercy University

Cedar Rapids, IA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Mount Mercy University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa list. Located in the medium-sized city of Cedar Rapids, Mount Mercy is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Mount Mercy are $11,176 a year.

Full Finance & Financial Management at Mount Mercy University Report

#3

Upper Iowa University

Fayette, IA

The excellent master’s degree programs at Upper Iowa University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value finance and financial management schools in Iowa. Located in the remote area of Fayette, UIU is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

UIU graduate students pay an average of $19,685 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Finance & Financial Management at Upper Iowa University Report

Best Value Finance & Financial Management Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Finance & Financial Management Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 200
Minnesota 28
Kansas 74
Nebraska 60
North Dakota 3
South Dakota 8

One of 20 majors within the area of study, finance and financial management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 131,555
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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 Dave Dugdale.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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