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Located on a 8.1 km2 Iowa State University campus contains over 160 buildings, several of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Iowa State University's campus, specifically its Central Campus, has been recognized as one of the nation's most beautiful theirs and was listed as a "medallion site" by the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1999.

Ames is a small town, so there is not a plenty of things to do but since it's located in a small town there is plenty to do on campus. Students have a bowling alley, movie theater on campus that shows movies for free and they are updated. If they like football or basketball there's always that as well. They have many opportunities for free fun at the Memorial Union – the main students’ social organization on-campus.

ISU has over 800 student organizations and sports are a big part of campus life that represent a variety of interests. Organizations are supported by Iowa State's Student Activities Center. Besides, there are nearly 50 fraternities and sororities at Iowa State and most chapters have their own houses.

Iowa State operates 19 on-campus residence halls. The residence halls are divided into geographical areas.

The Iowa State Department of Residence has a variety of neighborhoods ranging from suite-style residence halls to family-student apartments available to fit your needs and lifestyle.

The majority of incoming freshman students live in the Richardson Court and Union Drive neighborhoods. The majority of the rooms are standard double rooms. However, there are a limited number of single and triple rooms available throughout the neighborhoods. Eaton and Martin Halls are suite-style buildings meaning two rooms (four people) share a bathroom. Two additional residence halls and two apartment neighborhoods for our upper-division students (students 19 and older) provide the same benefits and conveniences of traditional residence hall living with more independence and privacy.

Iowa State University career center provides a wade variety of services and opportunities for its students. These include career fairs, academic advising, orientation, career exploration classes, field trips, professional contacts, computer-aided career exploration programs, and career counseling.

Total undergraduate costs for nine-month academic year, 2016–2017 are about $41,000 for a non-resident living on-campus. This sum includes tuition and fees - about $24,000 per year, books and supplies - $1,000, room and board - $9,000, personal and transportation costs - $4,000, health insurance - $2,500.

What is now Iowa State University was originally set up by the state legislature as an agricultural college and model farm in 1858. Land was purchased for close to $5,400 the following year. The farmhouse building was completed in 1861. The first official student cohort arrived in 1969. The institution was co-educational from the start, with two women among the first 26 graduates in 1872. It has now grown from such humble origins to cater to about 37,000 students at any one time.

Iowa Agricultural College which became Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts as of 1898, was established on the principles of a land grant university, which stress accessibility and the teaching of the liberal arts alongside more immediately practical subjects. These founding ideals are still reflected in a range of more than 100 majors branching out from agriculture to cover most of the sciences and the arts.

Iowa State was already a pioneer in 1879, when it set up the first state school of veterinary medicine in the US. It acquired its current title, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, in 1949 to reflect its excellence in research and strong focus on technological innovation. Notable inventions that took place on campus include the Atanasoff–Berry computer (or ABC), the world’s first binary computer.

Iowa State is a large, prestigious university with a friendly hometown personality. Its students study with world-class scholars and keep more than 500 student organizations going strong. The campus is also home to the Ames Lab, a research center for the U.S. Department of Energy. 

As with any major public university, many Iowa State University alumni have achieved fame or notoriety after graduating. These people include astronauts, scientists, Pulitzer Prize winners, statesmen, academicians, CEOs, entrepreneurs, athletes, film and television actors, and a host of other notable individuals in their respective fields. Among the well-known alumni of ISU are its first black student (and later its first black faculty member), former slave George Washington Carver, who went on to become a prominent botanist and inventor; and astronaut Clayton Anderson. 

Academics U.S. News & World Report ranks Iowa State among the top 50 public national universities. Overall, ISU ranks the 111th in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of national universities and the 42nd in the Washington Monthly rankings in 2016.

Iowa State University is organized into eight colleges and two schools that offer 100 Bachelor's degree programs, 112 Masters programs, and 83 Ph.D programs, including one professional degree program in Veterinary Medicine. 

Iowa State University offers highly ranked graduate programs through its College of Veterinary Medicine and College of Engineering, as well as an interdepartmental degree program in human computer interaction.

In engineering specialties, at schools whose highest degree is a doctorate, Iowa State's biological/agricultural engineering program is ranked the first, the mechanical and civil are ranked the 9th and the 16th nationally in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report 2016. Almost all of the engineering specialities at ISU are ranked in the top 30 nationally. 

ISU's chemistry and physics programs are considered to be some of the best in the world and are ranked in the Top 100 globally and in Top 50 nationally by Academic Ranking of World Universities Shanghai Ranking 2016.

The most popular majors by number of students are mechanical engineering, finance, kinesiology and exercise science.