Iowa State University
Iowa State University is a member university of IDEA, a consortium of renowned, accredited public universities from across the United States that have joined together to provide an elite online educational experience. Through IDEA, you can select Iowa State University as your home university and take courses from universities across the consortium; this gives you access to innovative courses, industry-leading faculty, and degrees that one single university could not offer alone.
Participating Programs
Through IDEA, Iowa State University offers a wide range of online master’s degrees and online graduate certificate programs in human sciences and agriculture. These programs provide flexibility to busy professionals who need to balance work and academic responsibilities, and they are offered at one affordable common price across programs and regardless of state of residence.
More about IDEA at Iowa State University
As a member university of IDEA, Iowa State University offers elite online master's degrees and graduate certificate programs in human sciences and agriculture. With Iowa State University as your home university, you can achieve your professional goals through entirely online programs that feature faculty and staff from multiple universities who provide a student-centered, collaborative, innovative, and highly engaging educational experience.
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Traditions at Iowa State University
Cy the cardinal was inspired by the school colors since a cyclone was a difficult costume to make.
Iowa State University is a longstanding pillar in offering reputable, transformative public bachelor’s and master’s degree programs. It has a lively, tight-knit in-person and online community of faculty, staff, and students who are committed to academic and personal growth and success.
Explore Iowa State University’s traditions to learn more about the school’s legendary fight song, campus pet swans, Lancelot and Elaine, and homecoming celebration. Also, if you make it to campus, do as the locals do and be sure to step around the zodiac relief on the floor of the Memorial Union to avoid bad luck, or override a misstep on the zodiac relief by tossing a coin into the Fountain of the Four Seasons outside the front door.
