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Best Communications Colleges in Iowa
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This ranking scores 11 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
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Communications programs in Iowa ranked by outcomes and program concentration
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
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Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
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University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
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Drake University
Des Moines, IA
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University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA · 22,264 students · Public
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA · 7,529 students · Public
Drake University
Des Moines, IA · 2,543 students · Private nonprofit
Simpson College
Indianola, IA · 1,227 students · Private nonprofit
Coe College
Cedar Rapids, IA · 1,164 students · Private nonprofit
Central College
Pella, IA · 1,070 students · Private nonprofit
Loras College
Dubuque, IA · 1,083 students · Private nonprofit
Wartburg College
Waverly, IA · 1,452 students · Private nonprofit
Clarke University
Dubuque, IA · 742 students · Private nonprofit
Iowa State University
Ames, IA · 25,367 students · Public
University of Dubuque
Dubuque, IA · 1,440 students · Private nonprofit
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David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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