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Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa

2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$14,918 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,857 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor's Degree School for You

In 2021-2022, engineering technologies students earned 942 degrees and certificates from an Iowa school, making the subject the 4th in the state.

There are so many trade school programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Trade College Search has developed this Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Iowa to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for engineering tech students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa

Check out the engineering tech bachelor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Engineering Technologies

Our 2023 rankings named Iowa State University the best value school in Iowa for engineering technologies students working on their bachelor’s degree. Iowa State is a very large public school located in the city of Ames.

Iowa State undergraduate students pay an average of $10,133 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Iowa State also made our Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools in Iowa list, coming in at #2.

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#2

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, IA

Out of the 4 schools in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Cedar Falls, UNI is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UNI are $9,411 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UNI is ranked #3 for overall quality for engineering tech in Iowa.

Full Engineering Technologies at University of Northern Iowa Report

#3

Waldorf University

Forest City, IA

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Waldorf University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering technologies schools in Iowa. Waldorf is a small private for-profit school located in the remote town of Forest City.

Waldorf undergraduate students pay an average of $24,526 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Waldorf also took the #1 spot in our Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools in Iowa rankings.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at Waldorf University

#4

Hamilton Technical College

Davenport, IA

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Hamilton Technical College helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering technologies schools in Iowa. Located in the city of Davenport, Hamilton Technical College is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

Hamilton Technical College undergraduate students pay an average of $15,600 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Engineering Technologies at Hamilton Technical College Report

Best Value Engineering Technologies Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 1,256
Minnesota 1,288
South Dakota 231
North Dakota 443
Missouri 1,641
Nebraska 423

Engineering Tech Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Industrial Production Technology 11,288
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 10,780
Environmental Control Technology 9,376
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology 8,822
Electronics Engineering Technology 8,347
Engineering-Related Fields 6,553
Mechanical Engineering Technology 6,205
Construction Engineering Technology 4,299
General Engineering Technology 3,841
Quality Control Technology 3,720
Computer Engineering Technology 3,509
Engineering Technology (Other) 1,907
Energy Systems Technologies 1,277
Architectural Engineering Technology 1,239
Civil Engineering Technology 1,155
Engineering-Related Technologies 969
Mining & Petroleum Technology 410
Nuclear Engineering Technology 235
Nanotechnology 104

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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 KUKA Systems GmbH.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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