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Upper Iowa University

Upper Iowa University
Upper Iowa University Official Seal.png
Motto Deo Duce
Motto in English
With God For A Leader
Type Private
Established 1857 (1857)
Endowment USD $15.0 million
President William R. Duffy II
Academic staff
462
Students 6,158
Location Fayette, Iowa, USA
Campus Rural
100 acres (0.40 km2)
Colors Blue and White          
Athletics NCAA Division IINSIC
Nickname Peacocks
Affiliations Council of Independent Colleges, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
Website www.uiu.edu

Coordinates: 42°50′17″N 91°48′00″W / 42.838°N 91.800°W / 42.838; -91.800

Upper Iowa University (UIU) is a private institution of higher education with its residential campus located in northeast Iowa, United States near the Volga River in the rural community of Fayette, where around 900 students are enrolled.

UIU offers distance education programs that include 15 centers in the U.S., an online program, an independent study program, and centers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. UIU has a total student enrollment of more than 6,000 students with a 24:1 student-to-faculty ratio (based on university-wide enrollment).

Upper Iowa offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in more than 40 majors, including art, business, conservation management, education, higher education administration, human services, information technology, liberal arts, math, nursing, psychology, science, and more. It operates on two eight-week terms per semester, allowing students to take two classes per term.

UIU is the only NCAA Division II Athletics Program in the state of Iowa and a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).


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