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Best Value Liberal Arts & Humanities Schools in Iowa

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2023 Best Value Liberal Arts & Humanities Schools in Iowa

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$9,942 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,629 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities School for You

With 3 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, liberal arts / sciences and humanities is the #30 most popular major in Iowa.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Liberal Arts & Humanities Schools in Iowa ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Colleges.

Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities 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 liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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 took the #3 spot in our Best Liberal Arts & Humanities Schools in Iowa rankings.

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Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 48
Missouri 7
Minnesota 4
North Dakota 0
Nebraska 8
South Dakota 0

Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Liberal Arts General Studies 2,680

Related Major Annual Graduates
Visual & Performing Arts 18,379
Theology & Religious Vocations 17,287
English Language & Literature 9,566
Foreign Languages & Linguistics 4,163
Philosophy & Religious Studies 3,136

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 Jacques Sablet (Switzerland, Morges, 1749-1803).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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