Iowa lawmakers advanced a pair of bills which would require at least 80 percent of students admitted to the University of Iowa’s College of Law and College of Nursing programs to be in-state students.
Establishing residency requirements for the College of Law, House Study Bill 532, defines “resident of Iowa” as someone who either graduated from an Iowa high school, has lived in the state for at least four consecutive years preceding the start of college, or who attended an Iowa university for their undergraduate degree.
The adjacent proposal, House Study Bill 530, contains slightly different requirements, and only defines “resident of Iowa” as someone who graduated from an in-state high school, as it is focused on the Bachelor of Science in Nursing undergraduate degree…