University of Iowa

The University of Iowa, commonly known as U of I or Iowa, is legally the State University of Iowa, a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, founded on 25 February 1847, just fifty-nine days after Iowa was admitted to the Union, and it is the oldest and largest university in the state.爱荷华大学（常缩写为 U of I 或 Iowa）法定名称为爱荷华州立大学（State University of Iowa），是爱荷华州爱荷华城的公立研究型大学，1847 年 2 月 25 日创办，恰在爱荷华加入联邦之后五十九天，是该州历史最悠久、规模最大的大学。

Organised into twelve colleges offering more than two hundred areas of study and seven professional degrees, it has an urban campus of 1,880 acres on the banks of the Iowa River and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".该校设有十二个学院，提供二百多个专业方向与七个专业学位；其位于爱荷华河畔的城市校区占地 1,880 英亩，被列为「R1：博士型大学——极高研究活动」。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Iowa is placed 597th in the world, and it is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Universities Research Association, with research expenditures of $818 million in fiscal year 2021 and some 32,000 students in nearly 500 organisations.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，爱荷华大学位列全球第 597 位；它是美国大学协会与大学研究协会成员，2021 财年研究支出达 8.18 亿美元，约 32,000 名学生参与近 500 个学生组织。

History

• The University of Iowa was founded on 25 February 1847, and the Constitution of the State of Iowa refers to a state university to be established in Iowa City "without branches at any other place".爱荷华大学于 1847 年 2 月 25 日创办；爱荷华州宪法规定，将在爱荷华城设立一所州立大学，「不在其他任何地方设立分校」。
• The cornerstone of the Old Capitol was laid on 4 July 1840, the building housed the Fifth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa in December 1842 and became the first capitol of the State of Iowa in December 1846.老议会大厦的奠基石于 1840 年 7 月 4 日安放；该建筑于 1842 年 12 月容纳了爱荷华领地第五届立法会议，并于 1846 年 12 月成为爱荷华州首座州议会大厦。
• When the capital of Iowa moved to Des Moines in 1857 the Old Capitol became the first permanent home of the university, whose original campus consisted of the building and ten acres of land.1857 年爱荷华首府迁往得梅因后，老议会大厦成为该校的第一处永久校址；大学最初的校园仅由这座建筑及其十英亩土地组成。
• The first faculty began teaching in March 1855 in the Old Mechanics Building, and in September 1855 the university had 124 students, of whom forty-one were women.首批教师于 1855 年 3 月在旧机械楼开课；到 1855 年 9 月，全校共有 124 名学生，其中四十一人为女性。
• The 1856-57 catalogue listed nine departments offering ancient languages, modern languages, intellectual philosophy, moral philosophy, history, natural history, mathematics, natural philosophy and chemistry.1856 至 1857 学年的课程目录列出九个系，开设古典语言、现代语言、智性哲学、道德哲学、历史、博物学、数学、自然哲学与化学等课程。
• The first president of the university was Amos Dean.该校首任校长是阿莫斯·迪恩（Amos Dean）。
• In 1855 the university became the first public university in the United States to admit men and women on an equal basis.1855 年，该校成为美国首所以平等条件录取男女学生的公立大学。
• It was one of the first institutions in America to grant a law degree to a woman, Mary B. Hickey Wilkinson in 1873, to grant a law degree to an African American, Alexander G. Clark Jr. in 1879, and to put an African American on a varsity athletic squad, Frank Holbrook in 1895.它是美国最早向女性授予法学学位的院校之一：1873 年授予玛丽·B·希基·威尔金森（Mary B. Hickey Wilkinson）；1879 年又向非裔美国人亚历山大·G·克拉克二世（Alexander G. Clark Jr.）授予法学学位，并于 1895 年让非裔美国人弗兰克·霍尔布鲁克（Frank Holbrook）进入校队。
• The university awarded its first doctorate in 1898, and it established the first law school and the first dental school west of the Mississippi River.该校于 1898 年授予首个博士学位，并在密西西比河以西建立了首所法学院与首所牙科学院。
• In 1932 Iowa was the first university to use radio in education, later also television, and it pioneered in the field of standardised testing.1932 年，爱荷华成为首所将广播（后来还有电视）用于教学的大学，并在标准化测试领域开创先河。
• Under the leadership of Carl Seashore in 1922 Iowa became the first university in the United States to accept creative projects, such as collections of poems, musical compositions or series of paintings, as theses for advanced degrees.在卡尔·西肖尔（Carl Seashore）的主持下，爱荷华于 1922 年成为美国首所接受以创作项目（如诗集、乐曲或绘画系列）作为高级学位论文的大学。
• The university's creative writing programme, known worldwide as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was founded in 1936 and became the prototype for more than three hundred writing programmes, many founded by its alumni.该校的创意写作项目以「爱荷华作家工作坊」之名享誉世界，创办于 1936 年，后来成为三百多个写作项目的范本，其中许多由其校友创立。
• The Iowa Board of Regents, created by the Iowa General Assembly in 1909, governs the University of Iowa along with the state's two other public universities.爱荷华州立大学由爱荷华州议会于 1909 年设立的「爱荷华州评议委员会」管理，该委员会同时管理该州另外两所公立大学。
• In October 1964 the Board of Regents approved using "The University of Iowa" for everyday usage, although the legal name of the university remains the State University of Iowa.1964 年 10 月，评议委员会批准在日常场合使用「The University of Iowa」这一名称，但该校的法定名称仍为爱荷华州立大学。
• In 1966 Phillip Hubbard became the first African American promoted to administrative vice president at a Big Ten institution.1966 年，菲利普·哈伯德（Phillip Hubbard）成为十大联盟院校中首位被提升为行政副校长的非裔美国人。
• The university was the first state university to recognise the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allied Union, in 1970.该校于 1970 年成为首所承认男女同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者及其盟友联盟的州立大学。
• A shooting took place on campus on 1 November 1991, killing six people including the perpetrator, and it was one of the deadliest university campus shootings in United States history.1991 年 11 月 1 日，校园内发生枪击事件，包括行凶者在内共六人死亡，这是美国历史上最严重的校园枪击事件之一。
• In the summer of 2008 flood waters breached the Coralville Reservoir spillway and damaged more than twenty major campus buildings, with a preliminary estimate of 231.75 million in damage and repairs later estimated at about743 million.2008 年夏，洪水冲过科拉尔维尔水库溢洪道，损毁校园内二十多座主要建筑；初步估计损失为 2.3175 亿美元，后来的修复费用估计约为 7.43 亿美元。
• In January 2009 UNESCO designated Iowa City the world's third City of Literature, making it part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.2009 年 1 月，联合国教科文组织将爱荷华城指定为世界第三座「文学之城」，使其加入联合国教科文组织创意城市网络。
• In 2015 the Iowa Board of Regents selected Bruce Harreld, a business consultant with limited academic administration experience, as president, a choice that provoked controversy on campus.2015 年，爱荷华州评议委员会推选学术管理经验有限的企业顾问布鲁斯·哈雷尔德（Bruce Harreld）为校长，这一选择在校园内引发争议。
• On 15 July 2021 Barbara J. Wilson was named the twenty-second president of the University of Iowa, the office she still holds.2021 年 7 月 15 日，芭芭拉·J·威尔逊（Barbara J. Wilson）被任命为爱荷华大学第二十二任校长，她至今仍担任此职。
• In 2016 the university opened a new Hancher Auditorium and a new Voxman Music Building, rebuilding arts facilities that had been damaged by the 2008 flood.2016 年，该校启用新的汉彻大礼堂与新的沃克斯曼音乐楼，重建了在 2008 年洪灾中受损的艺术设施。

Academics

• The University of Iowa is organised into twelve colleges offering more than two hundred areas of study and seven professional degrees, and it is a member of the Association of American Universities.爱荷华大学设有十二个学院，提供二百多个专业方向与七个专业学位，是美国大学协会成员。
• The Master of Fine Arts degree was originally developed at Iowa, which in 1922 became the first university in the United States to accept creative work as theses for advanced degrees, securing a place for writers and artists in the academy.艺术硕士（MFA）学位最初由爱荷华开创；1922 年该校成为美国首所接受创造性作品作为高级学位论文的大学，为作家与艺术家在学术殿堂中赢得了一席之地。
• The Iowa Writers' Workshop, founded in 1936, has produced thirteen Pulitzer Prize winners since 1947, and twenty-five people affiliated with it have won a Pulitzer Prize.创办于 1936 年的爱荷华作家工作坊自 1947 年以来培养了十三位普利策奖得主，与其相关的二十五人曾获得普利策奖。
• The university counts forty-six Pulitzer Prize winners among its alumni and faculty, seventeen of whom are alumni of the Writers' Workshop, and the workshop is typically more selective than almost any other graduate programme, admitting fewer than five per cent of applicants.该校的校友与教师中共有 46 位普利策奖得主，其中 17 位是作家工作坊的校友；该工作坊的录取率通常低于百分之五，几乎比任何其他研究生项目都更难进入。
• In graduate rankings for 2021 U.S. News & World Report placed Iowa's Carver College of Medicine tied for 20th in primary care and tied for 34th in research, its College of Public Health tied for 19th, its College of Pharmacy tied for 18th, its College of Law tied for 27th and its College of Nursing tied for 21st.在 2021 年的研究生排名中，美国新闻与世界报道将爱荷华的卡弗医学院列为基层医疗并列第 20 位、科研并列第 34 位，公共卫生学院并列第 19 位，药学院并列第 18 位，法学院并列第 27 位，护理学院并列第 21 位。
• The university has educated many of the state's professionals, including seventy-nine per cent of Iowa's dentists, fifty per cent of its physicians, forty-eight per cent of its pharmacists, and many teachers and administrators in each of the state's school districts.该校培养了该州大量专业人才，包括爱荷华 79% 的牙医、50% 的医师、48% 的药剂师，以及该州各个学区的众多教师与管理人员。
• The University of Iowa library system is the state's largest, comprising the Main Library, the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, five branch libraries and the Law Library, with more than five million bound volumes and more than 200,000 rare books.爱荷华大学图书馆系统是该州最大的图书馆系统，由主图书馆、哈丁健康科学图书馆、五个分馆与法学院图书馆组成，藏书逾五百万册、珍本逾二十万册。
• Significant holdings include the Hardin Library's John Martin Rare Book Room, the Iowa Women's Archives, the Louis Szathmary culinary arts collections and the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, alongside one thousand historical manuscript collections.重要馆藏包括哈丁图书馆的约翰·马丁珍本书室、爱荷华妇女档案、路易斯·萨兹马里烹饪艺术特藏，以及露丝与马文·萨克纳具体诗与视觉诗档案馆，另有约一千种历史手稿特藏。
• IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering is based in the C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory, which the American Society of Civil Engineers recognised as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark and as the oldest university-based hydraulics laboratory in the nation.爱荷华水利科学与工程研究所（IIHR）设于 C·麦克斯韦尔·斯坦利水力学实验室，美国土木工程师学会将该实验室认定为「国家历史土木工程地标」，并称其为全美历史最悠久的大学水力学实验室。
• The Institute of Agricultural Medicine was established in 1955 to study rural public health with a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and the university also hosts the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.农业医学研究所于 1955 年借助 W·K·凯洛格基金会拨款成立，用以研究农村公共卫生；该校还设有奥伯曼高级研究中心。
• For the Class of 2025 the university received 22,434 applications and accepted 19,340, an acceptance rate of 86.2 per cent, of whom 4,521 enrolled for a yield rate of 23.4 per cent.在 2025 届招生中，该校收到 22,434 份申请，录取 19,340 人，录取率为 86.2%；其中 4,521 人入学，报到率为 23.4%。
• The university's freshman retention rate is 88 per cent, and 73.7 per cent of students go on to graduate within six years.该校的一年级学生留校率为 88%，73.7% 的学生可在六年内毕业。
• Of the sixty-five per cent of enrolled freshmen in 2021 who submitted ACT scores the middle fifty per cent composite score was between 22 and 29, while the eighteen per cent who submitted SAT scores had middle fifty per cent composite scores of 1140-1330.在 2021 年入学新生中，65% 提交了 ACT 成绩，其复合成绩的中间百分之五十区间为 22 至 29 分；18% 提交了 SAT 成绩，其复合成绩的中间百分之五十区间为 1140 至 1330 分。
• Iowa is a college sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored twenty-four Merit Scholarship awards in 2020, while thirty-one freshman students were National Merit Scholars in the 2020-2021 academic year.爱荷华大学是全国优秀奖学金计划的院校赞助方，2020 年赞助了二十四项优秀奖学金；2020 至 2021 学年有三十一名新生为全国优秀学者。
• ISCABBS, a public bulletin board system run at the university, was the world's largest internet community before the commercialisation of the World Wide Web.该校运行的公共电子公告板系统 ISCABBS，在万维网商业化之前曾是全球规模最大的互联网社区。
• The Hanson Center for Technical Communication was founded at the University of Iowa and named after Thomas R. Hanson, a 1960 graduate who funded the institution with $800,000.汉森技术传播中心在爱荷华大学成立，以 1960 届毕业生托马斯·R·汉森（Thomas R. Hanson）命名，他捐资 80 万美元资助该机构。

Campus

• The main campus is in Iowa City and is roughly bordered by Park Road and U.S. Highway 6 to the north and Dubuque and Gilbert streets to the east, with the Iowa River dividing it into west and east sides.主校区位于爱荷华城，大致北临公园路与美国 6 号公路，东临迪比克街与吉尔伯特街，爱荷华河将其分为东西两侧。
• The Pentacrest comprises five major buildings — Old Capitol, Schaeffer Hall, MacLean Hall, Macbride Hall and Jessup Hall — at the centre of the campus and reflects Beaux-Arts, Greek Revival and, east of the Iowa River, Collegiate Gothic architecture.五角核心区（Pentacrest）由老议会大厦、谢弗楼、麦克莱恩楼、麦克布赖德楼与杰瑟普楼五座主要建筑组成，位于校园正中，体现学院派、希腊复兴以及爱荷华河以东的学院哥特式建筑风格。
• The Old Capitol once housed the state legislature and was the primary government building for the State of Iowa, but it is now the symbolic heart of the university, with a restored ceremonial legislative chamber and a museum of Iowa history.老议会大厦曾是州议会所在地与爱荷华州的主要政府建筑，如今则是大学的象征性核心，内有复原的礼仪性立法厅与爱荷华历史博物馆。
• The east side of the campus contains six residence halls — Burge, Daum, Stanley, Currier, Mayflower and Catlett — together with the Iowa Memorial Union, the Pappajohn Business Building, the Seamans Center and the Main Library.校园东侧有六座宿舍楼——伯奇、道姆、斯坦利、柯里尔、梅弗劳尔与卡特莱特——以及爱荷华纪念联盟、帕帕约翰商学院楼、西曼斯中心与主图书馆。
• The west side of the Iowa River houses the Colleges of Law, Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Public Health along with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, five residence halls, Kinnick Stadium and Carver-Hawkeye Arena.爱荷华河以西设有法学院、医学院、护理学院、牙科学院、药学院与公共卫生学院，以及爱荷华大学医院与诊所、五座宿舍楼、金尼克体育场与卡弗-霍基体育馆。
• The campus is home to several museums, including the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, the Old Capitol Museum, the Medical Museum and the Athletic Hall of Fame and Museum.校园内设有多座博物馆，包括爱荷华大学斯坦利美术馆、自然历史博物馆、老议会大厦博物馆、医学博物馆以及体育名人堂与博物馆。
• The 2008 flood severely damaged the arts campus, including Art Building West, Hancher Auditorium, the Voxman Music Building, Clapp Recital Hall and the Theatre Building, Art Building West reopened in 2012 and the new Visual Arts Building, Hancher Auditorium and Voxman Music Building opened in 2016.2008 年洪灾严重损毁了艺术校区，包括西艺术楼、汉彻大礼堂、沃克斯曼音乐楼、克拉普演奏厅与剧场楼；西艺术楼于 2012 年重开，新的视觉艺术楼、汉彻大礼堂与沃克斯曼音乐楼则于 2016 年启用。
• The Oakdale Campus north of Interstate 80 in Coralville houses research facilities and a driving simulator, and the university's public art collection includes works by Sol LeWitt (2-3-1-1, 1994), Dale Chihuly (2004), Auguste Rodin (1889) and El Anatsui (2009).位于科拉尔维尔、80 号州际公路以北的奥克代尔校区，设有研究设施与驾驶模拟器；该校公共艺术收藏包含索尔·勒维特（2-3-1-1，1994 年）、戴尔·奇胡利（2004 年）、奥古斯特·罗丹（1889 年）与埃尔·阿纳苏伊（2009 年）的作品。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Iowa is placed 597th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，爱荷华大学位列全球第 597 位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place Iowa in the 326-350 band globally.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将爱荷华大学列入全球 326 至 350 区间。
• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 Iowa is ranked 249th in the world.在 2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻最佳全球大学排名中，爱荷华大学位列世界第 249 位。^[1]
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places Iowa in the 301-400 band worldwide.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将爱荷华大学列入全球 301 至 400 区间。
• In 2025 U.S. News & World Report tied Iowa for 98th among national universities and for 46th among public universities, and ranked it 113th in Best Value Schools and tied for 4th in Nursing.2025 年，美国新闻与世界报道将爱荷华大学列为全美综合性大学并列第 98 位、公立大学并列第 46 位，并在「最佳价值院校」中位列第 113、在护理学中并列第 4。
• Forbes ranked the University of Iowa 155th out of the top 500 rated private and public colleges and universities in America for its 2024-25 report, and 68th among public colleges and 20th in the Midwest.在其 2024 至 2025 年的榜单中，福布斯将爱荷华大学列为全美 500 所获评公私立高校中的第 155 位、公立院校第 68 位、中西部第 20 位。
• According to the National Science Foundation, Iowa spent $511 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it fifty-first in the United States.据美国国家科学基金会数据，爱荷华大学 2018 年研发支出为 5.11 亿美元，在全美排名第 51 位。
• OpenAlex attributes 203,834 research works and 21,211,806 citations to the University of Iowa, reflecting its substantial research output.OpenAlex 为爱荷华大学收录 203,834 篇研究成果、被引 21,211,806 次，反映其可观的研究产出。
• The university counts forty-six Pulitzer Prize winners, is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Universities Research Association, and its alumni network exceeds 250,000 graduates.该校共有 46 位普利策奖得主，是美国大学协会与大学研究协会成员，其校友网络超过 25 万名毕业生。

Student life

• The University of Iowa has no formal university motto, Iowa Code Chapter 263 defines its purpose as a threefold mission of teaching, research and public service entrusted to it by the state legislature at its founding in 1847.爱荷华大学没有正式校训；爱荷华法典第 263 章将该校宗旨界定为 1847 年建校时由州议会托付的三重使命——教学、研究与公共服务。
• The university has nearly five hundred student organisations and some 32,000 students, and its twenty-two varsity athletic teams are known as the Iowa Hawkeyes.该校有近五百个学生组织与约 32,000 名学生，其二十二支校运动队称为「爱荷华鹰眼」（Iowa Hawkeyes）。
• The Daily Iowan, often called the DI, is printed every Monday through Friday while classes are in session, and the noted pollster George Gallup was an early editor of it.《每日爱荷华人报》（常简称 DI）在上课期间每周一至周五出版，著名民调专家乔治·盖洛普（George Gallup）曾是其早期编辑。
• The Iowa Hawkeyes field twenty-two varsity teams, ten men's and twelve women's, all competing in the Big Ten Conference of NCAA Division I.爱荷华鹰眼队设有二十二支校队，其中男队十支、女队十二支，全部参加 NCAA 一级的十大联盟赛事。
• Men's wrestling is the university's most successful team, having won twenty-four of the school's twenty-six NCAA championships, fifteen of them during Dan Gable's twenty-one-year tenure from 1977 to 1997, along with thirty-five Big Ten titles.男子摔跤队是该校最成功的运动队，共夺得全校二十六个 NCAA 冠军中的二十四个，其中十五个是在丹·盖布尔（Dan Gable）1977 至 1997 年的二十一年任期内取得，另获三十五个十大联盟冠军。
• The football programme has won eleven Big Ten championships and claims five national championships, and Kinnick Stadium seats 70,585, it opened in 1929 as Iowa Stadium and was renamed in 1977 after Nile Kinnick, winner of the 1939 Heisman Trophy.橄榄球队曾获十一次十大联盟冠军，并声称有五个全国冠军；金尼克体育场可容纳 70,585 人，1929 年启用时名为「爱荷华体育场」，1977 年为纪念 1939 年海斯曼奖得主奈尔·金尼克（Nile Kinnick）而更名。
• In 2004 the university established an annual $25,000 contract with the newly reopened Iowa City Englert Theatre to host concerts and performances for as many as forty nights a year.2004 年，该校与新近重开的爱荷华城恩格勒特剧院签订每年 2.5 万美元的合同，用于每年举办多达四十个晚上的音乐会与演出。
• Field hockey won the 1986 national championship and has made eleven Final Four appearances, while Iowa City was designated a UNESCO City of Literature in 2009 and the Iowa Fight Song and Old Gold Hymn are among the university's traditional songs.曲棍球队曾夺得 1986 年全国冠军，并十一次闯入「四强」；爱荷华城于 2009 年被指定为联合国教科文组织文学之城，而《爱荷华战歌》与《旧金颂》则是该校的传统歌曲。

Notable people

• Amos Dean was the first president of the University of Iowa.阿莫斯·迪恩（Amos Dean）是爱荷华大学首任校长。
• Carl Seashore, a psychologist and dean, led the university in 1922 when it became the first in the United States to accept creative projects as theses for advanced degrees.心理学家兼院长卡尔·西肖尔（Carl Seashore）在 1922 年领导该校，使其成为美国首所接受创造性项目作为高级学位论文的大学。
• George Gallup, founder of the Gallup Poll, earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Iowa, in 1923, 1925 and 1928 respectively.盖洛普民调的创始人乔治·盖洛普（George Gallup）在爱荷华大学先后于 1923 年、1925 年与 1928 年取得学士、硕士与博士学位。
• Tennessee Williams, a leading twentieth-century playwright and author of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", graduated from Iowa in 1938.二十世纪重要剧作家、《欲望号街车》与《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》的作者田纳西·威廉斯（Tennessee Williams）于 1938 年毕业于爱荷华大学。
• James Van Allen, the physicist who discovered the radiation belts surrounding the Earth, took his master's and doctoral degrees in physics at Iowa in 1936 and 1939.发现环绕地球辐射带（即「范艾伦带」）的物理学家詹姆斯·范艾伦（James Van Allen）于 1936 年与 1939 年在爱荷华取得物理学硕士与博士学位。
• Mauricio Lasansky, a Latin American artist known as the father of modern printmaking, founded the university's Iowa print group.被誉为现代版画之父的拉丁美洲艺术家毛里西奥·拉萨斯基（Mauricio Lasansky）在该校创立了「爱荷华版画小组」。
• Albert Bandura, one of the most cited psychologists of all time and the originator of social cognitive theory, earned his master's and doctoral degrees at Iowa in 1951 and 1952.史上被引最多的心理学家之一、社会认知理论提出者阿尔伯特·班杜拉（Albert Bandura）于 1951 年与 1952 年在爱荷华取得硕士与博士学位。
• The novelists Flannery O'Connor and John Irving are among the university's best-known alumni of the Writers' Workshop, with O'Connor taking her MFA in 1947 and Irving his in 1967.小说家弗兰纳里·奥康纳（Flannery O'Connor）与约翰·欧文（John Irving）是该校作家工作坊最知名的校友，前者于 1947 年、后者于 1967 年取得艺术硕士学位。
• Gene Wilder, the comedic film and television actor, graduated from Iowa in 1955 with a degree in communication and theatre arts, and the actor Ashton Kutcher also attended the university.喜剧影视演员吉恩·怀尔德（Gene Wilder）于 1955 年毕业于爱荷华，取得传播与戏剧艺术学位；演员艾什顿·库彻（Ashton Kutcher）也曾就读该校。
• Tom Brokaw, the long-serving television news anchor, and Caitlin Clark, a record-setting college basketball player, are among the university's prominent alumni, as was Jewel Prestage, the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in political science.长期担任电视新闻主播的汤姆·布罗考（Tom Brokaw）与创下多项纪录的大学篮球运动员凯特琳·克拉克（Caitlin Clark）都是该校知名校友；该校校友还包括首位取得政治学博士学位的非裔美国女性朱厄尔·普雷斯塔奇（Jewel Prestage）。
• Yiyun Li, the Chinese-American novelist and MacArthur Fellow, is a professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Chinese-linked figure associated with the university.华裔美国小说家、麦克阿瑟奖得主李翊云（Yiyun Li）是爱荷华作家工作坊的教授，是与该校相关的华人人物。