Hawkeye Community College

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#13841 / #3630
Global Influence / U.S. Influence
#1290
Most Desirable School
Community college in Waterloo, Iowa, USA

Hawkeye Community College at a Glance

U.S. influence rank
#3630
Tuition and fees (2025–26)
$6,786
Graduation rate
50%
Undergraduates (fall 2024)
2,626

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Hawkeye Community College Featured Rankings

About Hawkeye Community College

According to Wikipedia, Hawkeye Community College is a public community college in Waterloo, Iowa. Hawkeye has several outlying centers in Cedar Falls, Independence, Grundy County, Waverly, and Waterloo. The college serves all or parts of Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Grundy, and Tama counties in Iowa.

Hawkeye Community College's Online Degrees

AAS in Early Childhood Education
  • Required Credits: 61
  • Format: Fully online
AAS in Human Resource Management
  • Required Credits: 65
  • Format: Fully online
AAS in Nursing
  • Required Credits: 85.5
  • Format: Fully online
AA in Liberal Arts
  • Required Credits: 62
  • Format: Fully online
AAS in Web Programming and Development
  • Required Credits: 61
  • Format: Fully online

Hawkeye Community College Admissions, Retention, and Graduation Information

Retention RateGraduation Rate
63%50%

Source: U.S. Department of Education (College Scorecard and NCES); acceptance rate for fall 2024; test scores for fall 2024; applications and enrollment for fall 2023; retention for students who started in fall 2023; graduation rate within six years for students who started in 2019.

How Much Does Hawkeye Community College Cost To Attend?

Tuition and fees (in-state)
$6,786
Average Net Price by Family Income (2024–25)
IncomeAverage Net Cost
0 - 30K$13,408
30K - 48K$12,723
48K - 75K$13,639
75K - 110K$15,987
110K+$19,558

Source: U.S. Department of Education (College Scorecard and NCES); tuition and fees for 2025–26; net price for 2024–25, for first-time, full-time students receiving financial aid.

How Much Do Hawkeye Community College Graduates Make?

Ten years after starting college, former Hawkeye Community College students who received federal financial aid earn a median of $47,058 a year, and 90% of those not still in school are working.

Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard; students who started college in 2011–12 or 2012–13, measured in 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.

Hawkeye Community College's Demographics

Students enrolled at any time during the 2023–24 school year, including part-time and online students.

Student BodyUnder-Grads
6,4636,463

Source: National Center for Education Statistics; 12-month enrollment for 2023–24.

Where is Hawkeye Community College?

Hawkeye Community College is located at 1501 E Orange Rd, Waterloo, IA 50701.

How Safe is Hawkeye Community College?

Like every college that receives federal student aid, Hawkeye Community College publishes an annual security report with its campus crime statistics and safety policies. Its figures can also be looked up in the U.S. Department of Education’s Campus Safety and Security database.

Relative to its enrollment, Hawkeye Community College has a violent crime rate of less than 0.01% and a property crime rate of 0.04%. Waterloo has a violent crime rate of 0.48% and a property (including theft) crime rate of 2.48%. Sources: campus: U.S. Department of Education Campus Safety and Security data, on-campus offenses in 2024 (violent: murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property: burglary, motor vehicle theft and arson, which excludes ordinary theft); city: FBI Crime Data Explorer, offenses reported to the city police in 2024.

What Is Hawkeye Community College Known For?

Hawkeye Community College is known for its academic work in the following disciplines:

Hawkeye Community College's Top Areas of Influence With Degrees Offered

Each rank compares how much Hawkeye Community College's faculty and alumni have shaped a field with other schools, using Wikipedia, Wikidata and scholarly citation databases such as Crossref and Semantic Scholar. World and U.S. ranks reflect modern influence; the historical rank counts influence across all time. How we rank influence

History
#7016
World Rank
#7024
Historical Rank
#2155
USA Rank

Hawkeye Community College ranks #2155 in the U.S. and #7016 worldwide for influence in History.

history Degrees
Nursing
#6285
World Rank
#6285
Historical Rank
#2425
USA Rank

Hawkeye Community College ranks #2425 in the U.S. and #6285 worldwide for influence in Nursing.

nursing Degrees
Biology
#10581
World Rank
#10595
Historical Rank
#2721
USA Rank

Hawkeye Community College ranks #2721 in the U.S. and #10581 worldwide for influence in Biology.

biology Degrees
Political Science
#12442
World Rank
#12444
Historical Rank
#3023
USA Rank

Hawkeye Community College ranks #3023 in the U.S. and #12442 worldwide for influence in Political Science.

political-science Degrees
Criminal Justice
#6729
World Rank
#6731
Historical Rank
#3155
USA Rank

Hawkeye Community College ranks #3155 in the U.S. and #6729 worldwide for influence in Criminal Justice.

criminal-justice Degrees
Computer Science
#12336
World Rank
#12343
Historical Rank
#3435
USA Rank

Hawkeye Community College ranks #3435 in the U.S. and #12336 worldwide for influence in Computer Science.

computer-science Degrees
Medical
#12393
World Rank
#12395
Historical Rank
#3437
USA Rank

Hawkeye Community College ranks #3437 in the U.S. and #12393 worldwide for influence in Medical.

medicine Degrees
Business
#13394
World Rank
#13394
Historical Rank
#3632
USA Rank

Hawkeye Community College ranks #3632 in the U.S. and #13394 worldwide for influence in Business.

business Degrees
Communications
#13545
World Rank
#13555
Historical Rank
#3725
USA Rank

Hawkeye Community College ranks #3725 in the U.S. and #13545 worldwide for influence in Communications.

communications Degrees
Education
#16330
World Rank
#16337
Historical Rank
#4225
USA Rank

Hawkeye Community College ranks #4225 in the U.S. and #16330 worldwide for influence in Education.

education Degrees