Northwestern College-Iowa

What are the graduation rates for students at Northwestern College-Iowa?

Northwestern College's reported six-year graduation rate is 66%, while its four-year rate is 55%. These measures track an entering cohort of first-time, full-time students over different periods; they do not describe the completion rate of every transfer, part-time or graduate student.

The reported first-year retention rate is 73%, meaning roughly three in four students in the measured group returned for the following year. Graduation and retention figures are useful comparisons, but neither explains on its own why a student left or how long an individual will take to finish. Applicants with transfer credit or a tightly sequenced major may find a program-specific degree plan more informative than an institution-wide rate.

What is the earning potential for graduates at Northwestern College-Iowa?

College Scorecard program figures provide a limited view of earnings about one year after completion. Among Northwestern fields with reported figures, nursing has an earnings figure of $59,227; the figures for business administration and teacher education at specific levels and methods are $38,185 and $37,017, respectively.

These are program-level observations, not starting-salary offers or estimates of what every graduate in a major will earn. Earnings can reflect occupation, location, further education, employment patterns and which graduates appear in the underlying records. The figures should not be read as a college-wide average or combined into one: the available program data do not establish that they represent identical career paths or sample sizes. Students considering graduate school soon after a bachelor's degree should be especially cautious about treating a one-year earnings measure as a long-term return on investment.