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Envision A Dynamic City

Jackson Pollock Painting at
UI Museum of Art

Iowa City is one of USA Today’s “Best Educated Cities” and Utne Reader’s “Most Enlightened Towns.”

MSN ranked Iowa City No. 5 in the nation on a list of top 10 best places to live and work.
- MSN, March 2007

Click here for more on Iowa City as one of the best places to live.

“Many come away professing lasting affection for this city of bursting bookstores, leafy old neighborhoods and friendly shopkeepers.”
    New York Times, July 9, 2004

“Downtown Iowa City has cornered the market on local color and distinctive shops.”
    New York Times, July 9, 2004

Iowa City Downtown Campus



Iowa City was ranked the 3rd Best Small Metro Area.
    - Forbes, 2004

Iowa City was ranked 5th out of the Top Metros for Best Public Schools.
    - Expansion Management Magazine, 2005

Iowa City Downtown Ped Mall

 

2003 Forbes Milken Institute Index ranks Iowa City number 1 “Best Places for Business and Careers.” The ranking reviews job and salary growth and high-tech output.

Read an article from The New York Times, "36 Hours in Iowa City" (pdf).


 

 

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