Iowa State University of Science and Technology is a land-grant university in Ames, Iowa. It traces its origins to the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, established on 22 March 1858. The registrar reports total enrolment of 30,772 students in fall 2026.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is one of eight colleges at the university and offers 28 undergraduate majors and 35 graduate programmes. Its research division, the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, says its scientists have secured approximately $61 million in external funding annually over the last five years. The university manages 15 research farms across Iowa. Centres listed by the college include the Plant Sciences Institute, the Bioeconomy Institute, the Seed Science Center, the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development and the Iowa Soybean Research Center, and it lists federal collaborations including the National Animal Disease Center and the National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment.