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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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University of Iowa
The University of Iowa, founded in 1847, is home to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, widely regarded as the most prestigious creative writing MFA program in the country, having produced more Pulitzer Prize winners than any other creative writing program in American higher education. The university's hospital system and medical school rank among the top public academic medical centers in the country, and Iowa was the first public university in the United States to grant a law degree to a woman, in 1873, reflecting a historically early institutional commitment to gender-inclusive professional education. Iowa's college of business and its actuarial science program have built strong regional reputations, and the university's continued investment in creative writing beyond the Writers' Workshop, including its International Writing Program hosting authors from around the world, has made Iowa City a UNESCO City of Literature, one of very few American cities to hold that designation. The university's combination of a genuinely world-leading creative writing program and a strong academic medical center has given Iowa an unusually specific dual identity among American public research universities, drawing students to Iowa City for reasons rarely shared by peer institutions of similar size.
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