Sheldon, Iowa — Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon has been named one of the best in the nation by an online college aggregator.
According to NCC officials, BestAccreditedColleges.org has named Northwest Iowa Community College’s Associate of Arts Program #25 on their list of Best Associate Degrees in Liberal Arts in the Nation. NCC was the only Iowa college listed in the top 50 rankings.
A representative of BestAccreditedColleges.org says that they create their guides and school rankings with student education in mind, and this list will help the aggregator’s website readers and NCC’s potential students learn about Northwest Iowa Community College’s offerings. They tell us they considered hundreds of institutions across the country and ranked Northwest Iowa Community College using data around financial aid awards, the quality of education, faculty, campus resources, and more.
Representatives of the website tell us that their school rankings only include accredited, non-profit public and private schools. They say their objective approach to judging schools uses a proprietary ranking system, which combines current data points from the U.S. Department of Education with school-specific details.
Data points include the cost of attendance including tuition cost, financial aid, and more; accessibility, which includes admittance rates and more; and quality & value, which includes retention rates, graduation rates, and the student-faculty ratio.
A full list of the top 50 Schools can be found here.
