Whois & Analysis for iastate.edu

Iowa State University of Science and Technology is a public flagship land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States.

Iowa State is classified as a Research University with very high research activity (RU/VH) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Iowa State is also a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), which consists of 62 leading research universities in North America.

Iowa State has also been designated an "Innovation and Economic Prosperity University," a designation awarded to only 54 public universities in the U.S.

The academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits.

A student who successfully completes all courses established in an academic major qualifies for an undergraduate degree.

The word "major" is also sometimes used administratively to refer to the academic discipline pursued by a graduate student or postgraduate student in a master's or doctoral program.

The term may also apply to a focused field of an academic discipline that a student chooses at the doctoral studies level.

A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities.

Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape.