Which Buena Vista University major has the lowest debt?

Business graduates leave with a median of $22,987 in federal loans, the lowest among 13 Buena Vista University bachelor's programs that report debt.

How much does Buena Vista University cost?

Tuition and fees are $41,798 a year for all students. After grants and scholarships, the average net price is $18,846 a year.

How many Buena Vista University programs report graduate pay?

13 bachelor's programs at Buena Vista University report first-year pay, and all of them also report federal debt.

Buena Vista University Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

Private nonprofit university
Storm Lake, IA
1,366 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

13 Buena Vista University bachelor's programs report what graduates earn. Accounting pays the most in the first year ($53,280), and Biology the least ($30,682). The median program pays $42,972.

Tuition and fees$41,798Per year, for all students

Average net price after aid$18,846Per year

Graduation rate62%Within 6 years

Admission rate78%Of applicants

All 13 bachelor's programs, ranked

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in Iowa" compares first-year pay with the same field's bachelor's programs across Iowa. Programs that don't report a figure are listed last when you sort by it.

#	Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in Iowa
1	AccountingAbout 21 graduates a year	$53,280	$58,537	$27,000	15th of 17
2	FinanceAbout 16 graduates a year	$52,226	$74,244	$27,000	8th of 11
3	EntrepreneurshipGraduates a year not reported	$49,099	$61,334	$27,000	1st of 2
4	BusinessAbout 13 graduates a year	$48,810	Not reported	$22,987	5th of 5
5	Business AdministrationAbout 54 graduates a year	$47,385	$58,956	$31,000	14th of 20
6	Subject-Area Teacher EducationAbout 25 graduates a year	$44,551	$52,766	$29,008	6th of 8
7	MarketingAbout 14 graduates a year	$42,972	$56,087	$25,994	11th of 12
8	Teacher EducationAbout 83 graduates a year	$42,834	$44,936	$41,996	9th of 22
9	Kinesiology and Exercise ScienceAbout 19 graduates a year	$38,356	$52,330	$27,000	1st of 14
10	Criminal JusticeAbout 19 graduates a year	$37,641	$46,219	$27,000	8th of 9
11	Other Interdisciplinary StudiesAbout 3 graduates a year	$37,138	$42,638	$34,965	2nd of 3
12	PsychologyAbout 34 graduates a year	$35,559	$38,073	$32,500	4th of 15
13	BiologyAbout 12 graduates a year	$30,682	$63,633	$27,000	15th of 17

Program names link to the program's own page, and Iowa ranks link to the full ranking for the field. A program gets its own page when it reports both pay and debt and at least five Iowa programs in the field do too.

2 more bachelor's programs report debt but not pay, so they aren't listed.

Quick picks

Highest first-year pay

Accounting$53,280
Finance$52,226
Entrepreneurship$49,099
Business$48,810
Business Administration$47,385

Lowest median debt

Business$22,987
Marketing$25,994
Accounting$27,000
Finance$27,000
Entrepreneurship$27,000

Largest programs

Teacher EducationAbout 83 graduates a year
Business AdministrationAbout 54 graduates a year
PsychologyAbout 34 graduates a year
Subject-Area Teacher EducationAbout 25 graduates a year
AccountingAbout 21 graduates a year

Common questions

Accounting graduates earn a median of $53,280 in their first year, the most of 13 Buena Vista University bachelor's programs that report pay.

About this data

Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid, and earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school.
Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
Tuition, net price, graduation rate, and admission rate are for the whole school, not one program.
Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Iowa rankings when their main campus is in another state.
Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
NCES, IPEDS tuition and fees, 2023-24, for in-district tuition labels