University of Iowa

Pros: Affordable. Wide variety of courses available.
Cons: Poor teaching skills. Over crowded lectures. Learning environment not student friendly.

It's been 10 years since I graduated from U of I with a BS degree in microbiology and I still feel hostile towards the institution in almost every regard. Make no mistake, this is a world class research institution. The professional schools are well...

Pros: easy to place to live
Cons: mediocre academics

I am a senior at the University of Iowa. I am double-majoring in Anthropology and Spanish and have a minor in Women's Studies. I have played with other majors and minors, but keep coming back to this combination. I am also one of the few people that...

Pros: Good Location
Cons: Everything Else

The first dorm that I was ever in was Burge. It was on an overnight college visit as a high school senior in the summer of 1996. To say the least, I was not impressed. Since I had never been in a dorm before I didn't quite know what to expect, but I knew...

Pros: Beautiful Campus, Great Programs, Helpful Administration
Cons: Campus is pretty spread out...

I've attended quite a few different universities/colleges, and I have to say that University of Iowa is the best that I've been to. Sure, it has it's downsides, but the quality of life and education at U of I makes up for those downsides a thousand times...

Pros: Excellent Rooms, Has Everything You Need
Cons: Can Be A Bad Location For Some, Has cockroaches

Ahhh...Quadrangle...just the name brings back memories of my first year at the University of Iowa. This dorm, in my opinion, is the BEST dorm that is offered at U of I, and I am so very glad that I just happened to be assigned to live there during the...

Pros: Lots of free activities, Beautiful campus, Affordable, Excellent writing program, Perfect-sized city
Cons: City night life needs improvement, Many of the dorms are small

Potential "Hawkeyes" rejoice. If it's always been your dream or plan to attend the University of Iowa, you're in luck. Iowa doesn't disappoint.

With one of the lowest tuition rates in the country (easily the lowest in the Big Ten but has,...

Pros: lots of things to do for free, great city, nice people, opportunity for great social life
Cons: some social activities involve $, it would be SO easy to spend lots of $ on social life alone here

After living in a small college town for 4 years, I was eager to experience life in a larger city. I was drawn to the wonderfully magnetic energy of Iowa City, which is home of the University of Iowa. I am simply living and working here right now, but...

Pros: great classes, great town, GO PSCI!
Cons: classes are a little large, although not in a lot of upper level courses

I am a sophomore at the U of Iowa... and let me tell you... it is the greatest time of my 20-year life span!

Let's start out with academics because they are what is most important... I am a Political Science major, so I am mainly going to go...

Pros: vibrant, intelligent community; a wide range of activities on campus; great speakers come through
Cons: driving (try not to bring your car); size of the university

I graduated from the University of Iowa this past spring with double honors in English & Women's Studies. My education was sporadically brilliant, but I felt most of the time that whatever I was getting out of it I had put in tenfold. Many of my ...

Pros: Incredibly funny.
Cons: Not for the closed-minded.

The University of Iowa has many excellent features. It's a good school overall, in a nice setting. On-campus and off-campus housing options are nice, and the food in the student union won't kill you. Some of the food off-campus might, but there are...

Pros: Balanced Diet and TONS Of Food To Choose From
Cons: It Costs To Much...Some "Quality" Issues

School food is notorious with words like "Ewwww" and "Gross", but I didn't find the cafeteria food at University of Iowa to be all that bad. Of course, since my only previous experience with school food was my high school's...

Pros: Excellent Academics, Lots of things to do
Cons: Cold Winters

If you're thinking about getting a Computer Science degree, now is the time. There's an amazing market for people with CS degrees right now, and they say that it's only getting better.
Computer Science is my second degree from Iowa, my first is...

Pros: Very versatile
Cons: In-fighting among professors

I received a B.S. with honors and with distinction in psychology at the University of Iowa in 1999. I did my whole bachelor's there. I worked in a professor's lab as an undergraduate R.A. for two years, and I wrote my honors thesis on research...

Pros: Many great teachers and opportunities.
Cons: I live 18 hours away form Iowa!

Majoring in music at the University of Iowa has been a great experience. I am a freshman and a trumpet major, and I love it here.
The music theory professors, Professor Rogers and Professor Buchler, are two of the best teachers I have ever...

Pros: Big library, Huge hospital for med programs nearby, plenty of after hours spots
Cons: traffic is dangerous, parking is expensive and near non-existant, plenty of bars which allow underage drinking, in center of business district, hope you can run marathon distances between classes.

The University of Iowa campus has become overrun. Surrounded by the business district of the city of IOWA CITY, the campus suffers tremendously by overcrowding traffic, lack of parking, even greater lack and nonexistance of free or inexpensive parking,...