Iowa State University Top Questions

Everyone goes out and drinks on the weekends.

That we are all in agriculture and farming majors

Everyone here is a "farmer." It's boring cause it is in Iowa.

That most are farmers or from very small towns, all engineering students

One stereotype might be that we are all agriculture students because of where we are located and the large ag college. Other then that, I don't really think that ISU students have a certain stereotype.

One of the biggest stereotypes that I hear about Iowa State students is that they're all farmers.

Iowa State is dull.

Farmers, and hicks

That we are all Ag students that ride our horses into campus and then go home and grow corn.

Farmers, Small-Town, Narrow-Minded, Lower Class

All students are from small town, rural communities. Hicks.

We're all small town farm kids.

Sometimes the people are called "Hicks" being from Iowa and the country/farm.

A stereotype of Iowa State is that ISU is a college for hicks.

They are all engineers or farmers. The Greek students party all the time.

That they are all hicks and farm kids, or that its only an ag, engineering, or design school

That everyone here is a "farmer" or from small-town Iowa. I'm from the suburbs of chicago!

A lot of people think Iowa State is completely centered around Agriculture.

That all the students are farmers and education majors.

We are a party school. If you can't do anything else, switch to business.

All college students are party animals. They only get drunk. They can't be professional. Iowa State can't live up to Iowa as a university.

We are a school with a bunch of farm kids.

Drinking, Farmers, Engineers

Some of the stereotypes about Iowa State is that we are a farm school. There are lots of studetns that come here because they plan on taking over their family farms when they graduate. There are 4 big colleges in Iowa (ISU, UI, UNI, and Drake) and there is a big rivalry between Iowa State and Iowa. Many people at Iowa think they are better than the people at Iowa State.