Paul, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Milwaukee. Enrollment Approximately 29,000, including 6,400 in the Graduate College. Research Iowa graduate students receive ample opportunity to master the art and techniques of research in many fields. Through its administration of scholarship, fellowship, and research funds, the Graduate College encourages high-level participation in research by graduate students. Graduate Study Iowa's graduate programs have both depth and breadth.
Students actively participate in the life of a large and multifaceted university community.
They receive specialized attention within their own disciplines while they exchange ideas with people from throughout the University's 11 colleges. Approximately 1,700 full-time faculty members. Intellectual Innovation Students work with faculty in an atmosphere of academic freedom and verve that stimulates creativity, questioning, and penetrating thought. Among 131 public universities recently ranked in Hugh Davis Graham's and Nancy Diamond's 1997 book The Rise of the American Research Universities , Iowa ranked among the top 20 based on the quantity and quality of research performance. History Founded in 1847 as Iowa's first public institution of higher learning, Iowa was the first public university in the United States to admit women and men on an equal basis.