IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

in full Iowa State University Of Science And Technology, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Ames, Iowa, U.S. The university comprises colleges of Agriculture, Business, Design, Education, Engineering, Family and Consumer Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine. The Graduate College offers a broad range of master's and doctoral degree programs. Research facilities include the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, the Center for Designing Foods to Improve Nutrition, the National Soil Tilth Laboratory, and the Ames Laboratory, operated in association with the U.S. Department of Energy. Total enrollment is approximately 25,000. The university was chartered in 1858 as Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm. Made a land-grant institution in 1864, the college was one of the first schools to benefit from the Morrill Act of 1862. The name was changed to Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1896, and it took its current name in 1959. Iowa State was coeducational from its origin. It was the first state institution to found a veterinary school.