BSE BA Engineering

Students choose to study engineering at Iowa because of the college s academic excellence, individual attention, small-college environment, camaraderie, and tremendous opportunities. U.S.News and World Report ranks Iowa s undergraduate engineering program in the top 20 percent of engineering programs nationwide.The University of Iowa admits incoming first-year students directly into engineering. It does not have a pre-engineering year or the weed-out philosophy that many other programs have. About 525 first-year students and 100 transfer students enroll each year. Women account for over 26 percent of Iowa s engineering students; the national average is 20 percent.