Iowa State University

Iowa State University was founded in 1858 as the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The university adopted its present name in 1959. The main campus encompasses more than 1,900 acres in Ames, Iowa. ISU offers more than 90 Bachelors degree programs and 100 Masters Programs.

ISU is divided into the following academic divisions:

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
College of Business
College of Design
College of Engineering
College of Human Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
The Graduate College

ISU has an active Greek community and offers more than 45 chapters involving 11% of its undergraduate students.

Campus Location

Ames, IA 50011-2030
USA
Main Tel: (515) 294-5836
Web Site

The campus is in a small city.

Iowa State University Highlights

Where Iowa State University stands out most compared to other schools (details below):

Many students concentrating in engineering, nutrition and exercise therapy, landscaping and horticulture, conservation and resource management, design, mathematics, animal science and care, and agricultural science and management.
Large number of programs of study offered.
Large number of students.
High faculty salary.
High male/female ratio.
High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
Number of dorm rooms for students.

Other important characteristics:

Faculty tenure system
Library on-campus
Campus housing available
Study abroad option
Distance learning available
Weekend study option
Part-time classes available
ROTC
Athlete financial aid

Degrees Awarded (in 2007)

Degree	Total Earned	Different Programs
Bachelor	4,269	101
Master	752	118
Doctorale	296	85
First-professional degree	97	1

Iowa State Students

The student enrollment at Iowa State was 26,160 in 2007 (24,049 full-time equivalent).

About 55% of the freshmen class in 2007 was male and women were 45% of the class.

Undergrads are 79% of enrolled students, graduate students are 20%, and those seeking first-professional graduate degrees represent 2%.

About 3% of freshmen are from countries other than the US. Students living in the US make up 97% of incoming freshmen.

Among freshmen students, 97% are full-time and 3% are part-time.

Tuition and Other Costs

Item	Cost
State Tuition and fees	$ 6,161
Out-of-state tuition and fees	$ 16,919
Room	$ 3,561
Board	$ 3,154
Books and supplies	$ 978
Other	$ 3,312

Financial Aid: Iowa State participates in US Title IV financial assistance programs.

Please refer to BrainTrack's financial aid articles section for background information.

Similar Schools

Based on computer comparisons against all other US colleges, these schools appear to be most similar to Iowa State:

School	Location	Enrollment
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	University Park, PA	43,252
Texas A & M University	College Station, TX	46,542
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Blacksburg, VA	29,898
Clemson University	Clemson, SC	17,585
Purdue University-Main Campus	West Lafayette, IN	40,534
California Polytechnic State University	San Luis Obispo, CA	19,777
University of Colorado at Boulder	Boulder, CO	31,796
North Carolina State University at Raleigh	Raleigh, NC	31,802
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, MI	41,042
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Champaign, IL	42,326

Faculty

Tenure (2007):

Full-Time Faculty		Total
With tenure		795
Without tenure; working toward tenure		294
Without tenure; tenure not available		239

Housing and Meals

Iowa State provides on-campus housing for 8,960 of its 24,049 (full-time) students (as of 2007).

Iowa State Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. Iowa State is in the Big Twelve Conference for major sports.

Iowa State offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 159 male students received the aid (men were 52% of those receiving aid) and 145 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 48% of students receiving such aid) .

Iowa State Admissions (2007)

Applicants	Admitted
Men	89%
Women	92%
All	90%

SAT Test Scores:

SAT	Middle 50%
Verbal	510-640
Math	540-690

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees awarded in 2007 in parentheses)

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT (206 awarded)

Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations
Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Mechanization
Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences
Crop Production
Farm/Farm and Ranch Management
Food Science
Food Science and Technology
International Agriculture

ANIMAL SCIENCE AND CARE (120 awarded)

Agricultural Animal Breeding
Animal Sciences
Dairy Science

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (148 awarded)

Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Landscape Architecture (BS, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD)

ART STUDIES (6 awarded)

Visual and Performing Arts

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (955 awarded)

Accounting
Business Administration and Management
Finance
International Business/Trade/Commerce
Logistics and Materials Management
Management Information Systems
Management Science
Marketing/Marketing Management
Operations Management and Supervision
Transportation/Transportation Management

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (193 awarded)

Computer Engineering
Computer and Information Sciences
Computer and Information Systems Security

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (48 awarded)

Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management
Forestry
Natural Resources Conservation and Research
Natural Resources and Conservation
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management

CONSTRUCTION TRADES (6 awarded)

Apparel and Textiles

DESIGN (274 awarded)

Design and Visual Communications
Fashion/Apparel Design
Graphic Design
Interior Design

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (419 awarded)

Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching
Agricultural Teacher Education
Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services
Curriculum and Instruction
Early Childhood Education and Teaching
Education
Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement
Educational Leadership and Administration
Elementary Education and Teaching
Family and Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education
Health Teacher Education
Higher Education/Higher Education Administration
Mathematics Teacher Education
Music Teacher Education
Science Teacher Education/General Science Teacher Education
Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
Special Education and Teaching
Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor
Technology Teacher Education/Industrial Arts Teacher Education

ENGINEERING (908 awarded)

Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Agricultural/Biological Engineering and Bioengineering
Biomedical/Medical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Construction Engineering
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Engineering Mechanics
Engineering Science
Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Materials Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Operations Research
Systems Engineering

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (155 awarded)

Family Resource Management Studies
Family and Community Services
Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences
Housing and Human Environments
Human Development and Family Studies
Human Nutrition
Public Administration

HOSPITALITY (58 awarded)

Hospitality Administration/Management

LANDSCAPING AND HORTICULTURE (96 awarded)

Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding
Agronomy and Crop Science
Horticultural Science
Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management
Plant Sciences
Soil Science and Agronomy

LIBERAL ARTS (545 awarded)

Anthropology
Area Studies
Economics
English Language and Literature
French Language and Literature
German Language and Literature
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
History
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
Linguistics
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies
Political Science and Government
Russian Studies
Sociology
Spanish Language and Literature
Speech and Rhetorical Studies
Technical and Business Writing
Women's Studies

MATHEMATICS (89 awarded)

Applied Mathematics
Mathematics
Statistics

MEDIA (219 awarded)

Advertising
Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric
Journalism

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (11 awarded)

Medical Illustration/Medical Illustrator

MEDICINE (114 awarded)

Neuroscience
Veterinary Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Other (Cert, MS PhD)
Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
Veterinary Microbiology and Immunobiology (Cert, MS, PhD)
Veterinary Pathology and Pathobiology (Cert, MS, PhD)
Veterinary Preventive Med Epidemiology/Public Hlth (Cert,MS,PhD)

MUSIC (7 awarded)

Music

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (225 awarded)

Dietetics/Dietitian (RD)
Health and Physical Education
Health and Physical Education/Fitness
Kinesiology and Exercise Science
Nutrition Sciences

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (10 awarded)

Philosophy
Religion/Religious Studies

SCIENCE (428 awarded)

Analytical Chemistry
Animal Physiology
Astrophysics
Biochemistry
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Bioinformatics
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Biology/Biological Sciences
Biophysics
Botany/Plant Biology
Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences
Chemistry
Ecology
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology
Entomology
Genetics
Geology/Earth Science
Inorganic Chemistry
Meteorology
Microbiology
Nuclear Physics
Organic Chemistry
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Physics
Physiology
Plant Pathology/Phytopathology
Plant Physiology
Toxicology
Zoology/Animal Biology

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (174 awarded)

Psychology