unitid 153603 · Ames, IA · public 4-year · city (small)
Iowa State University
Public university in Ames, Iowa, US
- founded
- 1858
- enrollment 2023
- 32,126
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- iastate.edu
- motto
- “Science with practice”
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The Iowa State University of Science and Technology, also referred to as Iowa State University, is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the nation's first designated land-grant institutions when the Iowa Legislature accepted the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act on September 11, 1862. On July 4, 1959, the college was officially renamed Iowa State University of Science and Technology. wikipedia rev 1360705996 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
89%
65th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
25,367
92nd pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
19%
undergrads on Pell grants
14th pctl among public 4-years
completion
75%
finish within 150% time
93rd pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$24,018
59th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$18,589
after aid, aided students
86th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$63,386
after entry, Title IV students
81st pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$22,869
78th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $10,582 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k15%
- 30-48k12%
- 48-75k17%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $76,488
- First-generation students
- 20%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $10,787
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 2.8× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering. | 356 | $88,697 | $23,500 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 345 | $78,149 | $22,250 |
| Marketing. | 331 | $68,459 | $23,250 |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 250 | $61,453 | $25,425 |
| Psychology, General. | 246 | $50,080 | $23,121 |
| Computer Engineering. | 243 | $111,313 | $24,337 |
| Animal Sciences. | 235 | $55,971 | $21,500 |
| Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods. | 231 | $49,890 | $25,000 |
| Design and Applied Arts. | 216 | $55,046 | $27,000 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 212 | $75,665 | $21,750 |
| Agricultural Business and Management. | 177 | $68,687 | $16,972 |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 174 | — | $24,438 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 4,001 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,152) · basketball player (593) · university teacher (394) · politician (175) · statistician (128) · American football player (103) · mathematician (78) · chemist (62)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Henry A. Wallace
71 wikis · Public domain
George Washington Carver
67 wikis · Public domain
Lee Teng-hui
57 wikis · CC BY 4.0
John Vincent Atanasoff
46 wikis · CC BY 2.0
John Garang
43 wikis · Public domain
Nawal El Moutawakel
42 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Carrie Chapman Catt
42 wikis · Public domain
Florin Cîțu
39 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Tyrese Haliburton
35 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Joni Ernst
34 wikis · Public domain
Kim Reynolds
33 wikis · Copyrighted free use
Clayton Anderson
32 wikis · Public domain
Tom Harkin
28 wikis · Public domain
Darleane C. Hoffman
26 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ezra Taft Benson
23 wikis · Public domain
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1360705996), CC BY-SA 4.0.