Career Programs at North Iowa Area CC

2023 Tuition & Fees, Living Costs

The average undergraduate tuition & fees at North Iowa Area Community College is $9,245 for academic year 2022-2023. The amount is the average costs over all degree programs and the vocational program tuition may be lower than the average cost.

North Iowa Area Community College offers the alternative tuition plans .

57% of enrolled students have received grants and/or scholarships and the average amount of received financial aid is $6,284 (exclude student loans).

North Iowa Area CC 2023 Tuition & Fees, Living Costs
Tuition & Fees	$9,245
Average Financial Amount	$6,284

Offered Career / Vocational Programs and Completers

North Iowa Area Community College offers 33 vocational programs for Less than 12-Week Certificate, Less than 1-Year Certificate, and 1-2 Years Certificate programs. The following table lists number of programs by offered type and online availability along with number of completers.

Last year, 948 students have completed their career programs.

Offered Career Programs at North Iowa Area Community College
Award Level	Total Number of Programs	Available Online Class	Number of Completers
Less than 12 Weeks Certificate	3	1	219
Less than 1 Year Certificate	11	4	54
2 Years Certificate	19	2	95
Total	33	7	948

Programs by Award Level

The following table summarizes the number of completers by program and award level.

219 students have earned/completed Less than 12 Weeks Certificate program.
54 students have earned/completed Less than 1 Year Certificate program.
95 students have earned/completed 1-2 Years Certificate program.
580 students have earned/completed Associate's program.

Less than 12 Weeks Certificate Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Education [+]	✔ (1 completers)	56 completers	-
Physical Education Teaching and Coaching	✔	56	-
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✕	163 completers	-
Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic)	✕	50	-
Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide	✕	113	-
	Total	219

Less than 1 Year Certificate Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Communications Technologies [+]	✕	5 completers	-
Prepress/Desktop Publishing and Digital Imaging Design	✕	5	-
Computer and Information Sciences [+]	✔ (1 completers)	2 completers	-
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications	✔	2	-
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies [+]	✕	0 completers	-
Physical Fitness Technician	✕	0	-
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Firefighting [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Criminal Justice/Police Science	✕	3	-
Mechanics and Repairers [+]	✕	1 completers	-
Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology	✕	1	-
Precision Production Trades [+]	✕	11 completers	-
Welding Technology/Welder	✕	11	-
Business [+]	✔	25 completers	-
Business Administration and Management	✔	17	-
Accounting	✔	3	-
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science	✔	2	-
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies	✕	3	-
	Total	54

1-2 Years Certificate Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Agriculture [+]	✕	7 completers	-
Agricultural Production Operations	✕	7	-
Computer and Information Sciences [+]	✕	2 completers	-
Computer Support Specialist	✕	2	-
Education [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Early Childhood Education and Teaching	✕	4	-
Legal Studies [+]	✕	0 completers	-
Legal Administrative Assistant/Secretary	✕	0	-
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies [+]	✕	2 completers	-
Physical Fitness Technician	✕	2	-
Construction Trades [+]	✕	2 completers	-
Carpentry/Carpenter	✕	2	-
Mechanics and Repairers [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Technology	✕	1	-
Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology	✕	2	-
Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician	✕	0	-
Precision Production Trades [+]	✕	17 completers	-
Tool and Die Technology/Technician	✕	7	-
Welding Technology/Welder	✕	10	-
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✕	37 completers	-
Medical Administrative/Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary	✕	8	-
Medical/Clinical Assistant	✕	10	$34,300
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training	✕	19	-
Business [+]	✔	21 completers	-
Business Administration and Management	✕	9	-
Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping	✔	4	-
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science	✔	4	-
Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations	✕	4	-
	Total	95

Associate's Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Agriculture [+]	✕	25 completers	-
Agricultural Economics	✕	0	-
Agricultural/Farm Supplies Retailing and Wholesaling	✕	11	-
Agricultural Production Operations	✕	14	-
Communications Technologies [+]	✕	2 completers	-
Prepress/Desktop Publishing and Digital Imaging Design	✕	2	-
Computer and Information Sciences [+]	✕	14 completers	-
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications	✕	2	-
Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance	✕	4	-
Computer Support Specialist	✕	8	-
Education [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Elementary Education and Teaching	✕	1	-
Secondary Education and Teaching	✕	3	-
Engineering Technology [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician	✕	4	-
Legal Studies [+]	✕	0 completers	-
Legal Administrative Assistant/Secretary	✕	0	-
Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humanities [+]	✕	373 completers	-
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies	✕	373	-
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies [+]	✕	0 completers	-
Sport and Fitness Administration/Management	✕	0	-
Psychology [+]	✕	10 completers	-
Psychology	✕	10	-
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Firefighting [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Criminal Justice/Police Science	✕	3	-
Mechanics and Repairers [+]	✕	47 completers	-
Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Refrigeration Maintenance Technology	✕	16	-
Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology	✕	2	-
Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician	✕	18	-
Diesel Mechanics Technology/Technician	✕	11	-
Precision Production Trades [+]	✕	5 completers	-
Tool and Die Technology/Technician	✕	5	-
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✕	72 completers	-
Medical Administrative/Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary	✕	10	-
Physical Therapy Technician/Assistant	✕	13	-
Radiologic Technology/Science - Radiographer	✕	3	-
Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse	✕	46	-
Business [+]	✔	21 completers	-
Business Administration and Management	✔	11	-
Accounting	✔	3	-
Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science	✔	3	-
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies	✕	4	-
Insurance	✔	0	-
	Total	580

Admission, Enrollment, and Graduation

Total 2,479 students are attending at North Iowa Area Community College. There are 67 full-time faculty (instructional/teaching staffs) and 28 part-time faculty teaching for the school.

The students to faculty ratio is 21 to 1 (4.76%). The number of non-teaching staffs is 219 (full-time) and 151 (part-time).

The graduation rate of North Iowa Area Community College is 54% and transfer-out rate is 9%. The retention rate is 72% at the school.

North Iowa Area CC 2023 Key Statistics
Student Population	2,479
Graduation Rate	54%
Number of Faculty	95
Student to Faculty Ratio	21 to 1

Student Population at North Iowa Area CC

For the academic year 2021-2022, total 2,482 students enrolled into North Iowa Area Community College. By gender, 1,133 male and 1,349 female students are attending the school.

The following table summarizes the student population by gender and attending status for North Iowa Area Community College.

Student Population By Gender
North Iowa Area Community College
	Total	Male	Female
Total	2,482	1,133	1,349
Full-time	1,173	582	591
Part-tme	1,309	551	758

There are 2,105 White (84.81%), 86 Black/African American (3.46%), 165 Hispanic (6.65%), 29 Asian (1.17%), and 260 students with other races attending North Iowa Area Community College. 26 students are enrolled with non-resident alien status.

Student Population By Race/ethnicity at North Iowa Area Community College
	Total	Male	Female
Total	2,482	1,133	1,349
American Indian/Native American	7	5	2
Asian	29	10	19
Black/African American	86	50	36
Hispanic	165	69	96
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	2	0	2
White	2,105	949	1,156
Two More	48	21	27
Un-Known	14	9	5
Non-resident Alien	26	20	6

North Iowa Area Community College offers the distance learning opportunities (online classes) for career programs.

460 students (18.53% of total students) are enrolled online exclusively and 1,611 students (64.91% of total students) are enrolled some online courses. The following table summarizes the online student population for North Iowa Area Community College.

Distance Learning Student Population at North Iowa Area Community College
	Number of Students
Total	2,482
Enrolled Online Exclusively	460
Enrolled Some Online Courses	1,611
Not in Online Courses	411

By age range, at North Iowa Area Community College, 525 students are aged 20 to 24 (21.15% of total students), 1,631 students are aged below 20 (65.71%), 31 students are aged above 50 (2.42%).

Graduate Student Population By Age at North Iowa Area Community College
	Total	Male	Female
Total	2,482	1,133	1,349
Under 18	611	245	366
Age 18-19	1,020	531	489
Age 20-21	383	199	184
Age 22-24	142	52	90
Age 25-29	119	36	83
Age 30-34	70	26	44
Age 35-39	55	16	39
Age 40-49	51	13	38
Age 50-64	30	14	16
Over 64	1	1	0

Directory and Accreditation Information

North Iowa Area Community College is accredited by Higher Learning Commission (1/1/1919 - Current[Estimated Date]).

The following list shows the contact and directory information of North Iowa Area Community College.

500 College Dr, Mason City, IA

641-423-1264

School Website

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Financial Aid Information

2023 Tuition & Fees, Living Costs

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