Iowa State University
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Details
- Name: Iowa State University
- Location: Ames, IA 50011-2103
- Control: Public
- Accreditation: Higher Learning Commission
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Attendance
- Admissions Rate 89.13%
- Average SAT Scores 1199
- Four Year Completion Rate 54.46% Completion rates for full-time, first-time students within 4 years
- Six Year Completion Rate 75.47% Completion rates for full-time, first-time students within 6 years
- Eight Year Completion Rate 76.84% Completion rates for full-time, first-time students within 8 years. This is what is normally reported for college completion rates.
High Completion4 Year54.5%6 Year75.5%8 Year76.8% -
Costs
- Yearly Costs: $23,309 The average annual cost of attendance includes tuition and fees, books and supplies, and living expenses for all full-time, first-time, degree-certificate-seeking undergraduates
- Out of State Tuition: $27,683 Tuition and required fees for out-of-state students
- In State Tuition: $10,497 Tuition and required fees for in-state students
- Median Debt Total: $18,750 Median loan debt accumulated at the institution (the sum of all undergraduate federal loans over students’ college education at the institution for which the median debt is reported)
- Median Debt for Graduates: $22,869 Median loan debt accumulated for only graduates
- Median Debt for Withdrawals: $8,250 Median loan debt accumulated for only graduates
- Net Price Quintile 1 $11,734 Average net price derived from the full cost of attendance (including tuition and fees, books and supplies, and living expenses) minus federal, state, and institutional grant/scholarship aid, for full-time, first-time undergraduate Title IV-receiving students for students reporting a family income of $0-$30,000
- Net Price Quintile 2 $12,465 Average net price derived from the full cost of attendance (including tuition and fees, books and supplies, and living expenses) minus federal, state, and institutional grant/scholarship aid, for full-time, first-time undergraduate Title IV-receiving students for students reporting a family income of $30,001-$48,000
- Net Price Quintile 3 $15,430 Average net price derived from the full cost of attendance (including tuition and fees, books and supplies, and living expenses) minus federal, state, and institutional grant/scholarship aid, for full-time, first-time undergraduate Title IV-receiving students for students reporting a family income of $48,001-$75,000
- Net Price Quintile 4 $19,807 Average net price derived from the full cost of attendance (including tuition and fees, books and supplies, and living expenses) minus federal, state, and institutional grant/scholarship aid, for full-time, first-time undergraduate Title IV-receiving students for students reporting a family income of $75,001-$110,000
- Net Price Quintile 5 $21,827 Average net price derived from the full cost of attendance (including tuition and fees, books and supplies, and living expenses) minus federal, state, and institutional grant/scholarship aid, for full-time, first-time undergraduate Title IV-receiving students for students reporting a family income of $110,000+
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Earnings
- Median 6 Year Earnings $53,873 Median earnings measured 6 years after enrollment. Aggregate of all federally aided undergraduate students who enroll in an institution each year and who are employed but not enrolled. Earnings are defined as the sum of wages and deferred compensation from all non-duplicate W-2 forms received for each individual (from both full- and part-time employment), plus positive self-employment earnings from Schedule SE.
- Median 7 Year Earnings $51,327 Median earnings measured 7 years after enrollment. Aggregate of all federally aided undergraduate students who enroll in an institution each year and who are employed but not enrolled. Earnings are defined as the sum of wages and deferred compensation from all non-duplicate W-2 forms received for each individual (from both full- and part-time employment), plus positive self-employment earnings from Schedule SE.
- Median 8 Year Earnings $59,021 Median earnings measured 8 years after enrollment. Aggregate of all federally aided undergraduate students who enroll in an institution each year and who are employed but not enrolled. Earnings are defined as the sum of wages and deferred compensation from all non-duplicate W-2 forms received for each individual (from both full- and part-time employment), plus positive self-employment earnings from Schedule SE.
- Median 9 Year Earnings $56,174 Median earnings measured 9 years after enrollment. Aggregate of all federally aided undergraduate students who enroll in an institution each year and who are employed but not enrolled. Earnings are defined as the sum of wages and deferred compensation from all non-duplicate W-2 forms received for each individual (from both full- and part-time employment), plus positive self-employment earnings from Schedule SE.
- Median 10 Year Earnings $63,386 Median earnings measured 10 years after enrollment. Aggregate of all federally aided undergraduate students who enroll in an institution each year and who are employed but not enrolled. Earnings are defined as the sum of wages and deferred compensation from all non-duplicate W-2 forms received for each individual (from both full- and part-time employment), plus positive self-employment earnings from Schedule SE.
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What This College Costs By Family Income
Net price after grants and scholarships, by family income band.
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What Graduates Earn By Family Background
Median earnings by family income tercile, showing income mobility over time.
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| Name | Credential | Debt Mean | Debt Median | Earnings |
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| Agricultural Mechanization | Bachelor's Degree | $35,207 | No data | $57,856 |
| International Agriculture | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $31,292 |
| Plant Sciences | Bachelor's Degree | $23,770 | $16,877 | $44,779 |
| Food Science and Technology | Bachelor's Degree | $38,095 | No data | $49,538 |
| Area Studies | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $31,963 |
| Animal Sciences | Bachelor's Degree | $31,690 | $22,143 | $35,828 |
| Communication and Media Studies | Bachelor's Degree | $28,405 | $14,950 | $38,232 |
| Agricultural Business and Management | Bachelor's Degree | $24,695 | $14,971 | $46,032 |
| Architectural Sciences and Technology | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Journalism | Bachelor's Degree | $27,621 | $19,534 | $34,913 |
| Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods | Bachelor's Degree | $28,372 | $22,799 | $39,738 |
| Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | $37,827 | $19,000 | $66,960 |
| Civil Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | $38,752 | $29,003 | $61,277 |
| Materials Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $66,475 |
| Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $25,309 |
| Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services | Bachelor's Degree | $28,225 | $26,542 | $31,078 |
| Natural Resources Conservation and Research | Bachelor's Degree | $39,338 | $33,825 | $28,217 |
| City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning | Bachelor's Degree | $24,009 | No data | $39,426 |
| Landscape Architecture | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $47,898 |
| Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General | Bachelor's Degree | $33,993 | $25,069 | No data |
| Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas | Bachelor's Degree | No data | $20,870 | $40,888 |
| Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | $30,126 | $29,000 | $74,299 |
| Mechanical Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | $37,750 | $32,763 | $64,842 |
| Construction Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | No data | $35,377 | $71,580 |
| Engineering-Related Fields | Bachelor's Degree | $44,353 | $33,918 | $61,647 |
| Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $42,285 |
| English Language and Literature, General | Bachelor's Degree | $31,053 | $24,569 | $33,510 |
| Statistics | Bachelor's Degree | $32,324 | No data | No data |
| Forestry | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $39,406 |
| Architecture | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $49,768 |
| Computer Science | Bachelor's Degree | No data | $56,711 | $71,184 |
| Curriculum and Instruction | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Chemical Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | $32,267 | $20,254 | $70,534 |
| Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $41,011 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology | Bachelor's Degree | $32,264 | $27,480 | $26,485 |
| Intelligence, Command Control and Information Operations | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication | Bachelor's Degree | $36,003 | $33,975 | $39,633 |
| Biomedical/Medical Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $37,468 |
| Biology, General | Bachelor's Degree | $31,805 | $24,669 | $27,611 |
| Zoology/Animal Biology | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Mathematics | Bachelor's Degree | $41,127 | No data | $47,736 |
| Nutrition Sciences | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $29,014 |
| Religion/Religious Studies | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $40,315 |
| Agricultural Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | $40,836 | No data | $63,141 |
| Computer Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | $32,484 | $27,366 | $72,598 |
| Industrial Engineering | Bachelor's Degree | $37,628 | $19,377 | $67,086 |
| Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $38,447 |
| Apparel and Textiles | Bachelor's Degree | $30,290 | $20,000 | $41,681 |
| Botany/Plant Biology | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Microbiological Sciences and Immunology | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $35,690 |
| Computational Science | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Sustainability Studies | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Public Administration | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Anthropology | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $26,131 |
| Design and Applied Arts | Bachelor's Degree | $35,818 | $30,238 | $37,065 |
| Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities | Bachelor's Degree | $41,542 | $20,500 | $34,790 |
| Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $29,313 |
| Genetics | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $30,438 |
| Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $33,650 |
| Physics | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Political Science and Government | Bachelor's Degree | $39,785 | $32,385 | $35,620 |
| Health and Medical Administrative Services | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Business/Managerial Economics | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Management Information Systems and Services | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $56,910 |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $37,622 |
| Philosophy | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Economics | Bachelor's Degree | $30,306 | No data | $49,423 |
| Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Hospitality Administration/Management | Bachelor's Degree | $32,887 | $22,085 | $37,025 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Health and Physical Education/Fitness | Bachelor's Degree | $34,057 | $22,411 | $32,074 |
| Chemistry | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $45,450 |
| Psychology, General | Bachelor's Degree | $31,341 | $20,422 | $33,251 |
| Social Sciences, General | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Sociology | Bachelor's Degree | $37,043 | $39,163 | $35,205 |
| Music | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services | Bachelor's Degree | $31,988 | No data | $25,287 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations | Bachelor's Degree | $30,667 | $23,479 | $50,665 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services | Bachelor's Degree | $33,035 | $25,936 | $51,055 |
| Criminal Justice and Corrections | Bachelor's Degree | $32,770 | $25,164 | $36,457 |
| Visual and Performing Arts, General | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | $22,091 |
| Medical Illustration and Informatics | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Accounting and Related Services | Bachelor's Degree | $35,354 | $22,818 | $51,771 |
| Business Operations Support and Assistant Services | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| International Business | Bachelor's Degree | No data | No data | No data |
| Marketing | Bachelor's Degree | $39,026 | $32,146 | $44,875 |
| History | Bachelor's Degree | $21,943 | $14,967 | $32,633 |