Iowa contains 61 schools that offer medicine and health programs. Luther College, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in IA, has a total student population of 2,519 and is the 164th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 61 medicine and health schools in Iowa, only 5 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Salon Professional Academy comes out as the most expensive ($27,808/yr), with Southwestern Community College as the lowest recorded at only $6,608/yr.
Medicine and Health students from Iowa schools who go on to become medicine and health professionals, office administrators, massage therapists, trainers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 271,710 people working as medical and health services managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $90,970. Also, Registered nurses make on average $66,530 per year and there are about 2,583,770 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Iowa alone, there are 30,750 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $51,930. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $77,630/yr and there are 3,880 employed.
Also, within the medicine and health schools in Iowa, the average student population is 3,609 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 3687 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,622 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,082, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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