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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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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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