Cost of Study
The University of Iowa offers academic excellence at an affordable price, prompting Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine to rate The University of Iowa among the top 100 best values in higher education.
Tuition for on-campus classes is charged at two different rates. Residents of the state of Iowa are charged the resident (in-state) rate. Non-residents of Iowa are charged the non-resident (out-of-state) rate. The actual tuition you pay in a semester is based on a sliding scale dictated by the number of credit hours of enrollment. The tuition per semester (including mandatory fees) for the 2009-2010 academic year (fall and spring) is listed below.
M.P.H. Degree
| Semester Hours | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 + | |
| resident | 1326.50 | 1909.50 | 2573.25 | 3265.75 | 3848.75 | 4431.75 | 5014.75 | 5669.50 |
| non-resident | 1326.50 | 1909.50 | 2573.25 | 6890.75 | 8198.75 | 9506.75 | 10814.75 | 12200.50 |
M.H.A. Degrees
| Semester Hours | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 + | |
| resident | 1336.50 | 1924.50 | 2593.25 | 3290.75 | 3878.75 | 4466.75 | 5054.75 | 5718.50 |
| non-resident | 1336.50 | 1924.50 | 2593.25 | 6920.75 | 8234.75 | 9548.75 | 10862.75 | 12251.50 |
M.S. or Ph.D. Degrees
Semester Hours |
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| 0-2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 + | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| resident | 1009.25 | 1389.25 | 1894.25 | 2383.75 | 2763.75 | 3143.75 | 3523.75 | 4028.00 |
| non-resident | 1009.25 | 1389.25 | 1894.25 | 6163.75 | 7299.75 | 8435.75 | 9571.75 | 10830.00 |
Tuition for Distance-Education Public Health Courses
| Undergraduate students (includes undergraduate Public Health Certificate students) |
313.00 per semester hour |
| Other graduate students (includes Public Health M.S. and Ph.D. students and graduate Public Health Certificate students) |
448.00 per semester hour |
Master of Public Health students |
643.00 per semester hour |
| Master of Health Administration students
|
651.00 per semester hour |
Establishing Residency
If you want to establish residency for tuition and fee purposes, you would have to live in Iowa for 12 consecutive months. During those 12 months, you could be registered no more than half-time at any institution in the state. For a graduate student, this means enrollment not exceeding 5 semester hours during fall or spring semester, and not exceeding 4 semester hours during the summer. This enrollment maximum is cumulative enrollment in Iowa. It includes your UI courses, Guided Independent Study courses, community college courses, classes at all public and private Iowa colleges, etc.
Generally, international students with F-1 or J-1 visas are not eligible for resident tuition because they are required to be enrolled full-time as a condition of their F-1 or J-1 status. However, students who hold a graduate teaching or research assistantship of quarter-time or more are assessed resident tuition for the terms during which they hold the appointments, and any adjacent summer session during which they are registered.
Detailed information about residency can be found on the UI Registrar's website.