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2023 Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Schools in Iowa

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$33,482 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$28,092 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Health/Medical Prep Programs School for You

Health/Medical Prep Programs is the #20 most popular major in Iowa with 26 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the healthcare programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs 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 medical prep students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Health/Medical Prep Programs Schools in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Colleges.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality in Health/Medical Prep Programs

$19,754 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Mercy College of Health Sciences the best value school in Iowa for health/medical prep programs students. Located in the medium-sized city of Des Moines, Mercy College of Health Sciences is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Mercy College of Health Sciences are $19,754 per year.

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#2

Grand View University

Des Moines, IA
$30,954 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand View University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Schools in Iowa list. Grand View University is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Des Moines.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Grand View University are $30,954 a year.

Read full report on Health/Medical Prep Programs at Grand View University

#3

University of Dubuque

Dubuque, IA
$36,010 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Dubuque. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Schools in Iowa list. UD is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Dubuque.

UD undergraduate students pay an average of $36,010 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Medical Prep majors at UD take out an average of $19,000 in student loans while working on their egree.

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Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Health/Medical Prep Programs Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Minnesota 27
Missouri 153
Nebraska 95
Kansas 48
South Dakota 5
North Dakota 14

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, health/medical prep programs has other similar majors worth exploring.

Medical Prep Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Other Health/Medical Preparatory Programs 4,010
Pre-Nursing Studies 2,489
Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies 2,010
Pre-Physical Therapy Studies 257
Pre-Pharmacy Studies 167
Pre-Occupational Therapy Studies 108
Pre-Dentistry Studies 85
Pre-Physician Assistant 76
Pre-Art Therapy 4
Pre-Optometry Studies 3
Pre-Chiropractic Studies 1

Majors Similar to Medical Prep

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

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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