What we offer
The community provides numerous entertainment and housing options for older students and students with families.

• A vibrant campus. Iowa's campus is beautiful, pedestrian-friendly, and offers a variety of Entertainment Options.
• A cultured community. Offerings include great Restaurants, eclectic Book Stores, and abundant Live Performance Venues.
• Family support. Graduate students with families will find plenty of Child Care Options and Family-Oriented things to do.
• Accessibility. We're within a five-hour drive of Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, and St. Louis, and Making Travel Arrangements is a breeze.

Our track record
Many Iowa students fall in love with Iowa City and never leave, choosing to establish their careers and families here. The community also ranks high in published reports.

• Iowa City has been chosen the number one place to live in the country by Editor & Publisher magazine, and one of "The Ten Most Enlightened Towns in America" by Utne magazine.
• Iowa offers "a picturesque campus, a thriving social scene, and the excitement of Big Ten athletic teams," according to The Insider's Guide to the Colleges 2007.
• National Geographic Adventure magazine listed Iowa City as one of the "50 Best Places to Live and Play" in September 2007.
• Forbes magazine ranked Iowa City fifth in a feature on "Best Smaller Metros" in April 2007.
• Iowa City was listed as one of the 10 most affordable places to live and work by Sperling's Best Places in March, 2007.
• Outside magazine said Iowa City is the best town in the Midwest, and one of the best 30 towns in America, in 2007.
• Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine ranked Iowa City its No. 10 "smart city" in 2006 for its reasonable cost of living and thriving cultural scene.
• Expansion Management magazine named Iowa City the No. 3 most-livable city in the United States by measuring housing affordability and rent, income levels, tax burden, and unemployment figures. The magazine also ranked the Iowa City metropolitan area among the very best in the nation for quality K-12 schools.
• #2 in the Editor & Publisher Market Guide’s 2005 Better Living Index, which compares cost-of-living, crime, and education data.
• #3 most-educated metropolitan area in America in a USA Today analysis of the 2000 Census.
• American City Business Journals rate Johnson County No. 1 in Iowa and in the top 4 percent in the country when it comes to quality of living.