iowa state university

Ames, Iowa

General information:	(515) 294-5836
Website:	www.iastate.edu
Type:	Public, 4-year or above
Awards offered:	Bachelor's degree Master's degree Doctor's degree First-professional degree
Campus setting:	City Small
Campus housing:	Yes

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General information:

Estimated student expenses (before aid):

Undergraduate academic year prices

Detailed expenses	2008-2009	2007-2008	2006-2007
Tuition and fees
In-state	$6,360	$6,161	$5,860
Out-of-state	$17,350	$16,919	$16,354
Books and supplies	$984	$978	$892
Living arrangement
On campus
Room and board	$6,956	$6,715	$6,445
Other	$3,400	$3,312	$3,269
Off campus
Room and board	$8,321	$8,145	$8,143
Other	$5,465	$5,321	$4,668
Off campus with family
Other	$5,465	$5,321	$4,668
Total expenses	2008-2009	2007-2008	2006-2007
In-state
On campus	$17,700	$17,166	$16,466
Off campus	$21,130	$20,605	$19,563
Off campus with family	$12,809	$12,460	$11,420
Out-of-state
On campus	$28,690	$27,924	$26,960
Off campus	$32,120	$31,363	$30,057
Off campus with family	$23,799	$23,218	$21,914

Financial aid:

Enrollment:

Admissions:

Undergraduate application fee: $30

Undergraduate admissions:

	TOTAL	MALE	FEMALE
Number of applicants:	11058	5815	5243
Percent admitted:	89%	88%	90%
Percent admitted who enrolled:	44%	85%	0%

Admissions Considerations	Required	Recommended
Secondary school GPA	X
Secondary school rank	X
Secondary school record	X
Completion of college-prepatory program	X
Admission test scores	X
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)	X

Test Scores (enrolled first-time students):

Students submitting scores	NUMBER	PERCENT
SAT	486	11%
ACT	4116	95%

Test Scores	25th Percentile*	75th Percentile**
SAT Critical Reading	510	640
SAT Math	530	680
ACT Composite	22	27
ACT English	21	27
ACT Math	22	28

Notes:

* 25% of students scored at or below

** 25% of students scored above

Programs/majors

Completions 2007-2008:

Program	Bachelor	Master	Doctor
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences.
Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations	59	-	-
Agricultural Economics	-	2	-
Farm/Farm and Ranch Management	71	10	-
Agricultural Mechanization, General	27	-	-
Crop Production	-	-	2
International Agriculture	-	-	-
Animal Sciences, General	93	2	2
Agricultural Animal Breeding	-	2	1
Animal Nutrition	-	-	1
Dairy Science	13	-	-
Animal Sciences, Other	-	1	3
Food Science	18	-	-
Food Science and Technology, Other	-	5	2
Agronomy and Crop Science	35	15	-
Horticultural Science	46	1	2
Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding	-	4	4
Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management	1	-	-
Plant Sciences, Other	-	-	-
Soil Science and Agronomy, General	-	3	1
Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences, Other	-	7	3
Category total	363	52	21
Natural resources and conservation.
Environmental Studies	-	-	-
Environmental Science	13	6	1
Natural Resources Conservation and Research, Other	-	1	-
Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management	-	2	-
Forest Sciences and Biology	16	1	2
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management	-	1	-
Natural Resources and Conservation, Other	-	-	1
Category total	29	11	4
Architecture and related services.
Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)	65	19	-
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning	35	13	-
Landscape Architecture (BS, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD)	33	4	-
Category total	133	36	-
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies.
Russian Studies	1	-	-
Area Studies, Other	-	-	-
Womens Studies	3	-	-
Category total	4	-	-
Communication, journalism, and related programs.
Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric	70	-	-
Journalism	98	9	-
Advertising	59	-	-
Category total	227	9	-
Computer and information sciences and support services.
Computer and Information Sciences, General	46	14	10
Computer and Information Systems Security	-	12	-
Category total	46	26	10
Education.
Education, General	-	9	8
Curriculum and Instruction	-	11	7
Educational Leadership and Administration, General	-	26	17
Higher Education/Higher Education Administration	-	50	1
Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement	-	-	-
Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education	-	-	-
Special Education and Teaching, General	-	6	-
Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services	-	-	-
Elementary Education and Teaching	122	-	-
Early Childhood Education and Teaching	40	-	-
Agricultural Teacher Education	15	5	3
Health Teacher Education	1	-	-
Family and Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education	19	7	10
Technology Teacher Education/Industrial Arts Teacher Education	56	4	3
Mathematics Teacher Education	-	2	-
Music Teacher Education	18	-	-
Science Teacher Education/General Science Teacher Education	-	6	-
Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor	-	7	-
Category total	271	133	49
Engineering.
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering	78	12	3
Agricultural/Biological Engineering and Bioengineering	23	6	1
Biomedical/Medical Engineering	-	-	-
Chemical Engineering	76	6	7
Civil Engineering, General	92	25	12
Computer Engineering, General	72	15	7
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering	88	22	8
Engineering Mechanics	-	2	1
Materials Engineering	32	5	12
Mechanical Engineering	191	25	14
Systems Engineering	-	19	-
Construction Engineering	73	-	-
Industrial Engineering	65	4	4
Operations Research	-	-	-
Category total	790	141	69
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics.
Linguistics	6	-	-
German Language and Literature	2	-	-
French Language and Literature	4	-	-
Spanish Language and Literature	22	-	-
Category total	34	-	-
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences.
Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General	-	11	-
Family Resource Management Studies, General	9	-	-
Human Nutrition	-	-	-
Housing and Human Environments, General	1	-	-
Human Development and Family Studies, General	-	8	6
Family and Community Services	91	-	-
Apparel and Textiles, General	-	5	3
Category total	101	24	9
English language and literature/letters.
English Language and Literature, General	70	16	-
Creative Writing	-	1	-
Speech and Rhetorical Studies	7	7	-
Technical and Business Writing	11	-	-
Category total	88	24	-
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities.
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies	125	-	-
Category total	125	-	-
Biological and biomedical sciences.
Biology/Biological Sciences, General	118	-	-
Biochemistry	18	5	8
Biophysics	3	2	1
Botany/Plant Biology	1	1	2
Plant Pathology/Phytopathology	-	3	1
Plant Physiology	-	2	1
Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences, Other	-	4	5
Microbiology, General	24	2	2
Zoology/Animal Biology	7	-	1
Entomology	2	3	1
Animal Physiology	-	2	-
Genetics, General	14	9	15
Physiology, General	-	-	1
Toxicology	-	4	2
Bioinformatics	-	2	9
Ecology	48	2	-
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, Other	-	2	2
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other	-	2	5
Category total	235	45	56
Mathematics and statistics.
Mathematics, General	24	4	4
Applied Mathematics	-	1	2
Statistics, General	7	15	4
Category total	31	20	10
Multi/interdisciplinary studies.
Nutrition Sciences	14	6	3
Neuroscience	-	-	7
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other	22	30	4
Category total	36	36	14
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies.
Kinesiology and Exercise Science	144	8	3
Health and Physical Education/Fitness, Other	-	-	-
Category total	144	8	3
Philosophy and religious studies.
Philosophy	9	-	-
Religion/Religious Studies	7	-	-
Category total	16	-	-
Physical sciences.
Astrophysics	-	1	-
Meteorology	17	2	1
Chemistry, General	18	1	5
Analytical Chemistry	-	2	10
Inorganic Chemistry	-	-	2
Organic Chemistry	-	5	2
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry	-	1	3
Geology/Earth Science, General	5	4	-
Physics, General	12	-	1
Nuclear Physics	-	-	1
Physics, Other	-	1	4
Category total	52	17	29
Psychology.
Psychology, General	159	12	8
Category total	159	12	8
Public administration and social service professions.
Public Administration	1	8	-
Category total	1	8	-
Social sciences.
Anthropology	23	3	-
Economics, General	21	12	8
Political Science and Government, General	106	5	-
Sociology	60	5	2
Category total	210	25	10
Visual and performing arts.
Visual and Performing Arts, General	12	3	-
Design and Visual Communications, General	111	-	-
Fashion/Apparel Design	116	-	-
Interior Design	42	1	-
Graphic Design	54	7	-
Music, General	10	-	-
Category total	345	11	-
Health professions and related clinical sciences.
Veterinary Medicine (DVM)	-	-	105
Veterinary Anatomy (Cert, MS, PhD)	-	-	1
Veterinary Microbiology and Immunobiology (Cert, MS, PhD)	-	2	2
Veterinary Pathology and Pathobiology (Cert, MS, PhD)	-	-	-
Veterinary Preventive Med Epidemiology/Public Hlth (Cert,MS,PhD)	-	1	-
Veterinary Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Other (Cert, MS PhD)	-	1	-
Medical Illustration/Medical Illustrator	8	-	-
Dietetics/Dietitian (RD)	50	-	-
Category total	58	4	108
Business, management, marketing, and related support services.
Business Administration and Management, General	-	85	-
Logistics and Materials Management	43	-	-
Operations Management and Supervision	35	-	-
Transportation/Transportation Management	-	1	-
Accounting	122	36	-
Business/Managerial Economics	1	-	-
Finance, General	150	-	-
Hospitality Administration/Management, General	57	3	10
Labor and Industrial Relations	-	6	-
International Business/Trade/Commerce	-	-	-
Management Information Systems, General	74	5	-
Management Science, General	172	-	-
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	212	-	-
Category total	866	136	10
History
History, General	40	8	-
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology	-	1	-
History, Other	-	-	3
Category total	40	9	3
Grand total	4404	787	413

Data shown are for first majors
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