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The University of Iowa (U of I, UIowa, or Iowa [7]) 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. [7]
The state's oldest post-secondary institution is Loras College, a private Catholic school in Dubuque that was founded in 1839, [2] [3] seven years before Iowa became a state. [ 4 ] The state's only two law schools, the University of Iowa College of Law and Drake University Law School , are both accredited by the American Bar Association . [ 5 ]
The Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine (also known as CCOM or Carver) is the medical school of the University of Iowa, located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The first medical college associated with the University of Iowa was founded in 1850, in the small town of Keokuk, Iowa , but the current Iowa City program can trace its ...
The University of Iowa began medical services in 1873 when its medical department entered into an agreement with the Sisters of Mercy to operate a small hospital in the community. Davenport, Iowa physician Washington Freeman Peck and other physicians raised $5,000 to renovate a vacant school building known as Mechanics Academy into a 20-bed ...
The abbreviation may be non-obvious. For example, "KU" is the University of Kansas and not "UK," which is commonly the University of Kentucky. In some cases, the nickname may be better known than the formal name. For example, "West Point" for the United States Military Academy or "UCLA" for the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Tippie College of Business, also known as Tippie, is the business school located at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.Established as the College of Commerce in 1921, Tippie is one of the oldest and highest-ranked business schools in the United States.
Edwin Adams Davis – M.A. from Iowa; historian of Louisiana; father of Louisiana state archives; Louisiana State University professor [1] Shardé M. Davis – Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Connecticut. James R. Dow – emeritus professor of German at Iowa State University
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a graduate-level creative writing program. [1] At 87 years, it is the oldest writing program offering a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in the United States .