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2023 Best Value General Engineering Schools in Iowa

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$9,942 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best General Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 11 degrees and certificates were awarded to general engineering students who went to a Iowa college or university. This makes it the #106 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value General Engineering Schools in Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value General Engineering Colleges.

Best General Engineering School

#1

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA
$9,942 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Iowa the best value school in Iowa for general engineering students. Iowa is a fairly large public school located in the city of Iowa City.

Iowa undergraduate students pay an average of $9,942 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Iowa also made our Best General Engineering Schools in Iowa list, coming in at #3.

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Best Value General Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value General Engineering Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 50
Minnesota 3
Kansas 0
Nebraska 48
North Dakota 0
South Dakota 8

General Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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 Rémi Kaupp.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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