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2023 Best Value Mathematics Schools in Iowa

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$9,543 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$45,224 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mathematics School for You

Mathematics is the #37 most popular major in Iowa with 69 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Mathematics Schools in Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Iowa to see which programs offered the best value experiences for math students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Mathematics Schools in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Mathematics Colleges.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality in Mathematics

#1

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, IA
$9,053 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Northern Iowa the best value school in Iowa for mathematics students. Located in the city of Cedar Falls, UNI is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

UNI undergraduate students pay an average of $9,053 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Mathematics at University of Northern Iowa

$9,634 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Mathematics Schools in Iowa list. Iowa State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Ames.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Iowa State are $9,634 a year.

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#3

University of Iowa

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

The excellent programs at University of Iowa helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best mathematics schools in Iowa. Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Iowa are $9,942 a year.

Iowa also took the #3 spot in our Best Mathematics Schools in Iowa rankings.

Full Mathematics at University of Iowa Report

Best Value Mathematics Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Mathematics Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 84
Minnesota 41
Kansas 67
Nebraska 33
North Dakota 14
South Dakota 7

One of 4 majors within the area of study, mathematics has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Applied Mathematics 6,283
Statistics 4,594
Applied Statistics 388
Other Statistics 98

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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