Hunter
09/10/25
Iowa’s three state universities are asking for no general funding increase from the Iowa Legislature for the upcoming fiscal year.
Iowa Capital Dispatch reports the University of Iowa and Iowa State are keeping their funding requests flat, and the University of Northern Iowa is following suit after their funding increase was denied earlier this year.
If their requests are approved by the Iowa Board of Regents at next week’s meeting and honored by the state, the UI would receive nearly $223.5 million, ISU would receive more than $178.4 million and UNI would receive close to $101.9 million, totaling more than $503.8 million, all in general university funding for fiscal year 2027.
Although the request requires no additional general funding dollars, the University of Iowa is asking for an additional $3.6 million to address the state’s shortage of rural physicians by training more doctors in rural medicine. The money would go towards recruiting and retaining rural students studying medicine.
According to the appropriations request report, the state’s public universities enrolled more than 70,000 students in total, more than 40% of whom came from outside of the state. The universities hand out a combined amount of around 13,000 bachelor degrees and 4,400 graduate and professional degrees each year.
The full article is available at Iowa Capital Dispatch dot com.