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2023 Most Popular Online Healthcare Basic Certificate Schools in Iowa

4 Schools Ranked
$6,540 Avg Tuition & Fees*

It's not easy to decide which healthcare program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Most Popular Online Healthcare Basic Certificate Schools in Iowa ranking is one of many tools that Healthcare Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in Iowa to see which ones had the most popular online basic certificate programs for healthcare students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

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39 Total Awards

Our analysis found Eastern Iowa Community College District to be the most popular school for healthcare students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Iowa. Eastern Iowa Community College District is a medium-sized public school located in Davenport, Iowa that handed out 39 basic certificates in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 46% were women.

Around 61% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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4 Total Awards

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Mercy College of Health Sciences is a great place for healthcare students working on their basic certificate. This very small private not-for-profit school is located in Des Moines, Iowa, and it awarded 4 basic certificates in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 100% were women.

Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 81% took at least some of their classes online.

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16 Total Awards

The excellent basic certificate programs at Indian Hills Community College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular healthcare schools in Iowa. Ottumwa, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out basic certificates to 16 students in 2020-2021.

Of those students who received their degree, 75% were women.

To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 36% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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$6,540 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwest Iowa Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Healthcare Basic Certificate Schools in Iowa list.

The average in-state tuition and fees for students at Northwest Iowa Community College is $6,540. Out-of-state students pay an average of $6,840.

Around 68% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

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