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Quick Facts
Overview
Home of the world-renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop, the National Advanced Driving Simulator, and one of America's best hospitals, The University of Iowa is a comprehensive public university committed to high-quality teaching, research, and service. Founded in 1847 in Iowa City, Iowa, as the state's first public institution of higher learning, the University enrolls more than 30,500 students and offers several top-ranking programs.
University Distinctions
- Founded: February 25, 1847—Iowa's first public institution of higher learning
- A comprehensive public university with a long-standing commitment to teaching, research and service
- First U.S. public university to admit men and women on an equal basis when its doors opened to students in 1855.
- Home of the world-renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the National Advanced Driving Simulator, and one of “America’s Best Hospitals”
- World's first university to accept creative work in theatre, writing, music and art on an equal basis with academic research
- We educate many of the state's professionals:
- 79% of Iowa's dentists
- 50% of Iowa's physicians
- 48% of Iowa's pharmacists
- Teachers and administrators in 80% of Iowa's K-12 school districts
Academic Programs
- Semester system
- More than 100 areas of study; 7 professional degrees (MD, JD, MBA, LLM, PharmD, MNHP, and DDS). Undergraduate majors; Graduate/Professional majors.
- Student/faculty ratio: 15:1
- Study abroad, for-credit internships, research with faculty scholars, innovative programs for honors work
- Guaranteed admission for qualified Iowa high school graduates in the top 50% of their class who have completed the required precollege courses. More information...
Athletics and Recreation
- Big Ten sports, with 12 varsity teams for women and 10 for men
- NCAA Division 1A
- Extensive intramural sports opportunities
- Recreational facilities in the Field House, Recreation Building include a swimming pool, running tracks, weight machines, tennis and racquetball courts.
- The Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex includes eight indoor and 12 outdoor courts. It is also home to Fitness West and an outdoor equipment rental center.
Budget
Campus Media
- University-run stations WSUI-AM and KSUI-FM
- Student-run KRUI-FM
- The Daily Iowan newspaper and DITV news broadcasts
- UITV, a campus cable network providing service to Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, and surrounding communities
Computing
- 26 easily accessible Instructional Technology Centers located across campus with over 1,000 free computer stations
- Wireless networking is available at over 60 campus locations
- Free e-mail and public places to check e-mail
- High-speed Ethernet ports are available for each student in the dorms
Facilities
- Size of campus: 1,700 acres
- Number of major buildings: 129
- Commercial air service at the Eastern Iowa Airport, 15 miles from campus
- Campus maps
Housing
Library System
- Main Library and 9 departmental libraries, plus a Law Library, administered by College of Law
- More than five million bound volumes; Iowa's largest library
- UI Libraries rank among the top 25 public academic research libraries in the country.
- Includes more than 200,000 rare books and 500 historical manuscript collections, including the Iowa Women's Archives, the Szathmary culinary arts collections, and works of Walt Whitman
- More than 11,000 electronic journals licensed for use
Museums on campus
Students, Faculty, and Staff
Fall 2008
- Enrollment: 30,561
- Undergraduate students: 20,823
- Graduate students: 5,589
- Professional students: 4,149
- Tenured and tenure-track professors: 1,698
- Clinical and clinical-track faculty members: 494
- Professional and scientific staff: 7,964
- General service staff: 5,453
- Our faculty includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, three former clerks to U.S. Supreme Court justices, two National Medal of Science winners, and four Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. Many Iowa faculty are members of the nation’s most prestigious scholarly academies:
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (9)
- American Academy of Nursing (15)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (30)
- Institute of Medicine (17)
- National Academy of Engineering (1)
- National Academy of Sciences (4)
Traditions
Undergraduate Tuition and Fees
Academic Year 2009-10
- Undergraduate tuition and fees for Iowa residents*: $6,824
- Undergraduate tuition and fees for nonresidents*: $22,198
- Room and board fees (average for 9-month academic year): $8,004
*Tuition and fees vary by college. The figures above are based on a student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences taking 12 or more semester hours. For more information, see the Office of the Registrar.
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