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Grinnell College
Grinnell College, founded in 1846, holds one of the largest endowments per student of any liberal arts college in the country, a financial position built substantially on an early, highly successful investment in Intel stock by a trustee in the 1960s that grew into a massive long-term return for the college's endowment. The college's open curriculum, imposing no distribution requirements beyond a single required first-year tutorial, gives Grinnell students more freedom to design their own academic path than almost any other selective liberal arts college, an approach the school has maintained consistently for decades. Grinnell's rural Iowa setting, in a small town far from any major metropolitan area, has fostered a tight-knit, socially and politically engaged campus culture, and the college's substantial endowment funds need-blind admission and full-need financial aid for both domestic and international applicants. The college's combination of massive per-student financial resources, genuine curricular freedom, and its rural Midwestern setting has made Grinnell one of the most distinctive and well-resourced small liberal arts colleges in the country, consistently ranked among the top liberal arts institutions nationally.
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Iowa State University
Iowa State University, founded in 1858 as the country's first designated land-grant institution under the Morrill Act, has built one of the strongest agricultural and veterinary medicine programs in the country, reflecting its founding role in establishing the entire American land-grant university system. The university's engineering programs benefit from its historical role in early computing research — the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, developed at Iowa State in the late 1930s, is considered by many historians to be the first electronic digital computer, predating better-known later computing developments by several years. Iowa State's design college and its agricultural biotechnology research have built strong national reputations, and the university's continued strength in plant and animal sciences reflects Iowa's position as one of the country's most significant agricultural states economically. The university's combination of founding-era land-grant status, an early and historically significant role in computing history, and its continued agricultural research strength has made Iowa State one of the most institutionally distinctive land-grant universities in the country.
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