unitid 153658 · Iowa City, IA · public 4-year · city (small)
University of Iowa
Public university in Iowa City, Iowa, US
- founded
- 1847
- enrollment 2023
- 32,773
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- uiowa.edu
The University of Iowa is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and 7 professional degrees. wikipedia rev 1362104476 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
84%
50th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
22,264
90th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
18%
undergrads on Pell grants
13th pctl among public 4-years
completion
75%
finish within 150% time
92nd pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$28,596
83rd pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$22,531
after aid, aided students
96th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$64,762
after entry, Title IV students
85th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$22,500
76th 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 $15,316 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
- 0-30k16%
- 30-48k12%
- 48-75k16%
- 75-110k19%
- 110k+38%
- Median family income
- $72,993
- First-generation students
- 22%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $11,283
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 2.9× 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 543 | $65,473 | $24,250 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 475 | $145,651 | — |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 391 | $89,537 | $23,165 |
| Behavioral Sciences. | 327 | — | — |
| Marketing. | 301 | $75,795 | $25,000 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 290 | — | — |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 229 | $73,476 | $24,811 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 201 | $80,929 | $23,750 |
| Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities. | 191 | $59,491 | $25,269 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 183 | $96,419 | $21,500 |
| Human Resources Management and Services. | 169 | $75,166 | $23,149 |
| Law. | 168 | $110,931 | — |
— 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 · 5,010 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 (1,172) · basketball player (561) · university teacher (521) · writer (321) · American football player (245) · politician (233) · poet (160) · novelist (135)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Tennessee Williams
101 wikis · Public domain
Gene Wilder
101 wikis · Public domain
Ashton Kutcher
83 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Albert Bandura
62 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
John Irving
57 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Flannery O'Connor
55 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
54 wikis · FAL
James A. Van Allen
51 wikis · Public domain
Jim Yong Kim
47 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Michael Cunningham
46 wikis · Attribution
Jean Seberg
45 wikis · Public domain
Marilynne Robinson
45 wikis · GFDL 1.2
Terry O'Quinn
44 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Al Jarreau
43 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brandon Routh
43 wikis · CC BY 2.0
nearest neighbors in sector
Compare with peers
built 2026-07-17
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.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1362104476), CC BY-SA 4.0.