Iowa is home to some of the most intellectually distinguished institutions in the Midwest. The University of Iowa — an AAU member and home to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the most celebrated creative writing program in the world with 17 Pulitzer Prize winners — leads alongside Iowa State University, where the first electronic digital computer […]
Kansas offers a compact but high-quality higher education system centered on two flagship Big 12 universities. The University of Kansas — where basketball was invented by James Naismith, the first KU coach — features a top-10 pharmacy school and nationally ranked journalism program. Kansas State University holds the distinction of being the first operational land-grant […]
Kentucky is home to a rich and diverse higher education landscape. The University of Kentucky — an AAU flagship with a top-10 pharmacy school — and the University of Louisville — also an AAU member with the J.B. Speed School of Engineering — lead the state’s research universities. Distinctive institutions like Centre College (host of […]