Every year approximately 13 students graduate with a degree in sonography from Iowa schools. If you too are interested in studying sonography, Iowa has 3 sonography schools from which you can choose. You can expect to pay an average of $11,467 per year in tuition for a degree in sonography in Iowa state.
The largest sonography school in Iowa, by student population is Mercy College of Health Sciences. It is located in Des Moines. Approximately 13 students graduated with a sonography degree from Mercy College of Health Sciences in 2009, which was 100% of the total state sonography graduates for that year. Tuition at Mercy College of Health Sciences, was $13,000 per year in 2010.
A majority of sonography graduates choose to work as sonographers. If after graduation, you are planning on sticking around the state, you should keep in mind that the job outlook for sonography graduates in Iowa is good. Approximately 530 sonographers are currently working in Iowa. And the government projects that this number will increase by 17%, or to 620 sonographers by the year 2018.
As a sonographer in Iowa you can expect to earn anywhere from less than $40,842 per year to more than $66,129 per year. But the median salary for sonographers earn $51,463 per year, in Iowa.
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101 Jessup Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1316
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Allen College
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1990 Heath St, Waterloo, Iowa 50703-1999
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