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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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Cornell College
Cornell College, founded in 1853, is best known nationally for its distinctive "One Course At A Time" academic calendar, in which students take and complete a single course over an intensive three-and-a-half-week block before moving to the next, a structure unlike that of virtually any other American college. This block structure lets Cornell schedule immersive field trips, laboratory-intensive coursework, and off-campus study more easily than a traditional semester system would allow, and the college markets the format directly as producing more focused, immersive learning without the divided attention of juggling multiple simultaneous courses. The college's small size, around 1,000 undergraduates, and its historic hilltop campus in Mount Vernon, Iowa, entirely listed on the National Register of Historic Places, give Cornell College a distinctive small-town Midwestern liberal arts setting. Cornell College's block-plan calendar, shared by only a small handful of other American colleges including Colorado College, has made it a distinctive choice among students specifically seeking that particular immersive, single-course-at-a-time academic structure within a small Midwestern liberal arts college.
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