Most Favored Iowa Colleges

The average yield (also know as enrollment rate) of the 10 Most Favored Iowa Colleges is 22.34% for the academic year 2023-2024.

Maharishi International University has the highest (i.e. more admitted students are enrolled into eventually) admission yield of 50.40% and Dordt University (40.62%) and Grinnell College (36.10%) are following it in the list of Most Favored Iowa Colleges.

This ranking is only based on yield and more admission stats such as acceptance rate and SAT and ACT scores are helpful to measure the chances to get in more accurately.

Maharishi International University has the highest admission yield (enrollment rate) of 50.40% and Dordt University has the second highest yield of 40.62%.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $31,882 and graduate tuition & fees is $18,463 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 78.89% and the average SAT score is 1,189 at the schools.

Table. Most Favored Iowa Colleges Comparison
	School Name	Yield	Acceptance Rate	SAT Score	Undergraduate Tuition & Fees	Total Population	Graduation Rate	Students to Faculty Ratio
1 -	Maharishi International University Fairfield, IAPrivate, 4-year	50.40% 4.15%	96.90%	-	$16,530	2,673	50.00%	13 to 1
2 1	Dordt University Sioux Center, IAPrivate, 4-year	40.62% 6.31%	71.16%	1,130	$35,960	1,861	67.00%	14 to 1
3 1	Grinnell College Grinnell, IAPrivate, 4-year	36.10% 4.51%	12.68%	1,490	$64,862	1,759	88.00%	9 to 1
4 -	University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IAPublic, 4-year	33.46% 0.54%	94.40%	1,130	$21,272 ($9,728)	8,945	63.00%	17 to 1
5 1	Iowa State University Ames, IAPublic, 4-year	28.59% 0.37%	89.13%	1,240	$27,683 ($10,497)	29,969	74.00%	18 to 1
6 1	Northwestern College Orange City, IAPrivate, 4-year	28.16% 1.68%	87.01%	-	$35,300	1,651	62.00%	15 to 1
7 -	Upper Iowa University Fayette, IAPrivate, 4-year	24.35% 4.00%	93.38%	1,050	$19,000	3,072	42.00%	13 to 1
8 4	Waldorf University Forest City, IAPrivate, 4-year	24.00% 1.95%	72.60%	-	$25,220	2,763	25.00%	24 to 1
9 -	University of Dubuque Dubuque, IAPrivate, 4-year	23.97% 0.29%	86.92%	1,060	$40,065	1,776	39.00%	9 to 1
10 -	University of Iowa Iowa City, IAPublic, 4-year	23.29% 0.11%	84.67%	1,220	$32,927 ($10,964)	30,015	73.00%	16 to 1
	Average	31.29%	78.89%	1,189	$31,882 ($10,396)	8,448	58.30%	15 to 1

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