Largest business schools in Iowa by degrees awarded
16 business schools in Iowa awarded 1,483 master’s degrees in business to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 34th of the 51 states and DC with a business school. University of Iowa awarded the most, 560. A business school here is a college that awarded at least one master’s degree in any program of NCES’s CIP family 52, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services: the MBA and every other business master’s alike. The rule is broad by construction.
Master’s degrees in business awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
| Rank | Name | master’s degrees in business | Nationally |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Iowa | 560 | 70th of 1,232 |
| 2 | Iowa State University | 158 | 310th of 1,232 |
| 3 | Waldorf University | 154 | 318th of 1,232 |
| 4 | Upper Iowa University | 103 | 419th of 1,232 |
| 5 | Maharishi International University | 96 | 431st of 1,232 |
| 6 | Drake University | 81 | 484th of 1,232 |
| 7 | University of Dubuque | 75 | 504th of 1,232 |
| 8 | University of Northern Iowa | 59 | 589th of 1,232 |
| 9 | Mount Mercy University | 56 | 613th of 1,232 |
| 10 | Saint Ambrose University | 40 | 711th of 1,232 |
| 11 | Buena Vista University | 26 | 848th of 1,232 |
| 12 | William Penn University | 22 | 903rd of 1,232 |
| 13 | Clarke University | 20 | 933rd of 1,232 |
| 14 | Grand View University | 15 | 1,006th of 1,232 |
| 15 | Briar Cliff University | 10 | 1,079th of 1,232 |
| 16 | Wartburg College | 8 | 1,109th of 1,232 |
What this data cannot show
- How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
- First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
- Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
- The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
- Every institution in Iowa in NCES’s file that awarded these degrees has a college page here, and is in the table.
- The state is the one NCES files the college under; a campus in another state is ranked there.
Related
Sources
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
Data retrieved