OpenFieldUIowa · Iowa City, Iowa, United States
The University of Iowa, founded in 1847 in Iowa City, is the state's flagship public Carnegie R1 research university and a founding member of the Big Ten Conference. Internationally celebrated as the world capital of creative writing—home to the legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop, the first creative writing degree program in the US—UIowa is equally renowned for the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, pioneering space physics, and hydraulic engineering.
UIowa encompasses 12 colleges, notably the Carver College of Medicine, College of Engineering, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tippie College of Business, and College of Public Health. Its world-class research institutes include IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering, the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, and the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Undergraduate admissions are evaluated through the Common Application (holistic review; RAI score or GPA 3.7+ median; test-optional). Graduate and professional programs are highly competitive, requiring accredited baccalaureate degrees, competitive GPAs (minimum 3.3–3.5), writing samples or research proposals, and letters of recommendation.
The world's preeminent creative writing graduate program, which has produced 29 Pulitzer Prize winners and countless literary titans, focused on peer workshops in fiction and poetry.
LCME-accredited medical doctorate featuring early clinical integration at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics—one of the nation's premier academic medical centers.
Historic space physics department that built instruments for Explorer 1 and Voyager 1 & 2, leading contemporary NASA satellite research into auroral plasma and planetary magnetospheres.
World-leading fluid mechanics institute pioneering computational river hydraulics, ship hydrodynamics, environmental sensor networks, and regional flood mitigation.
Research-intensive doctoral program exploring satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), automated theorem proving, bioinformatics genomics algorithms, and network security.
CAHME-accredited elite healthcare management master's offering clinical administrative integration with University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and health systems across the Midwest.
Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts & Director of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Prof. Chang is a renowned novelist and the first woman and first Asian American to direct the Iowa Writers' Workshop, having received Guggenheim and National En...
View researcher profile ↗Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydraulics & Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
Dr. Weber is an internationally acclaimed hydrologist who co-founded the Iowa Flood Center, researching computational fluid dynamics, fish passage hydrodynamics...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Maffei conducts cutting-edge research in space plasma physics, analyzing solar wind turbulence and energetic particle dynamics using NASA Magnetospheric Mul...
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