The University of Iowa is a member of the Big Ten Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. As such, its administrative staff, coaching staff and more than 650 male and female student-athletes competing in 24 intercollegiate athletics programs are committed to achieving at the highest levels academically and athletically while making positive contributions to the greater Iowa City and University communities and the state of Iowa.

The UI's talented student-athletes score high marks not only in athletics competition, but in the classroom as well. In fact, 2010-11 was the UI's best year ever academically.

• The UI established a record when student-athletes at the UI, collectively, scored a grade point average better than 3.0 for the Spring 2011 semester. The UI's success was boosted by seven student-athletes who were named to the President's List and another 106 who were named to the Dean's List.
  

• 172 UI student-athletes were named to academic all-Big Ten teams in 2010-11. To be eligible, student-athletes must have been letterwinners in at least their second academic year and have carried a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better.
  

• The UI's 2011* Graduate Success Rate was 86 percent. This percentage tied the school record established in 2008 and was four percentage points better than the national average of 82.
  

• The UI's 2011** Federal Graduation Rate was 74 percent. This percentage tied the school record established in 2001, was nine percentage points better than the national average of 65, and four percentage points better than the total UI student population (70 percent).
  

• All 24 of the UI's sports programs scored above the NCAA's "Academic Progress Rate"*** of 925 used to determine whether a program is in good academic standing. Iowa's men's cross country, men's tennis, and women's tennis teams earned perfect scores of 1,000. The APR was developed by the NCAA to measure academic progress sport by sport and institution by institution in "real time."
  

*-NCAA Fall 2011 GSR report
**-NCAA Fall 2011 Federal Graduation Rate report
***-NCAA Spring 2011 APR report

Click HERE for more detail of the academic achievements of the UI's talented student-athletes.

The UI Athletics Department is responsible for generating 100 percent of the revenue required to successfully operate its 24 sports programs and auxiliary enterprises, e.g. the Department receives no General Education Funds ("tax dollars"). It became 100 percent self-supporting in 2007-08.

• The Department's 2011-12 budget of $74.9 million ranks eighth among the public institutions in the Big Ten Conference. The athletics budget at Ohio State tops the list at $126 million; Indiana is No. 11 at $61.5 million. The revenue side of the budget is built upon three primary sources of income:
  

  --Ticket sales and parking revenue: $23,779,552
  --Big Ten Conference distribution: $22,844,000
  --Development (includes premium seat revenue): $16,314,664
  

• The Department is charged the same rates for all central services provided by the UI to other departments on campus such as utilities, maintenance, and administration overhead for operations.
  

• More than 85 percent of the revenue generated by the Department is directly or indirectly attributable to its football and men's basketball programs.
  

• The Department pays the University the full value of the in-state and out-of-state tuition, room and board, and fees for all scholarships awarded annually to eligible male and female student-athletes. ($7.8 million in 2010-11)
  

• The Department pays the University for utility consumption and maintenance of intercollegiate athletics facilities including expenses associated with routine maintenance, green space management, snow removal, and custodial services. ($6.2 million in 2010-11)
  

• Approximately 37 percent of the FY12 budget for the Department is earmarked for salaries and benefits.
  

• The Department pays the UI Department of Public Safety and other off-campus security staff for security and other similar services at events staged by the UI Athletics Department. ($1.41 million in 2010-11)
  

• The Department pays The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and others for medical services provided to student-athletes. ($1 million in 2010-11)
  

• The Department pays the University an annual administrative overhead fee for services provided by Administrative Data Processing, Information Technology Services, University Cashier, and the University Business Office. ($772,000 in 2010-11)
  

• The Department pays the UI Department of Parking and Transportation for the use of select University parking lots on select game days/nights of UI athletics events including events involving the UI's football, men's basketball, women's basketball, and wrestling teams. ($367,000 in 2010-11)
  

• The Department provides financial support for the UI Marching Band that includes the salaries and benefits of select faculty of the UI School of Music and all expenses associated with the UI Marching Band's uniforms, equipment, and travel including all expenses related to the UI Marching Band's participation in a post-season bowl game and select post-season events should the UI participate in such events. ($678,000 in 2010-11)
  

Facilities that compare favorably with our peers in the Big Ten Conference and nationally are critical to the success of the Department. The list of facilities on the UI campus built or renovated during the last 10 years and used primarily by the UI Athletics Department continues to grow. All of those noted below have been or will be funded entirely with revenue generated by the UI Athletics Department.

• (In progress: Golf Practice Facility, $1.8 million)
  
• (In progress: Football Practice Facility, $51 million)
  
• Carver-Hawkeye Arena revitalization, 2011 ($43 million)
  
• Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, 2010 ($9 million support of $69 million project)
  
• Cretzmeyer Track, 2009, ($2 million)
  
• P. Sue Beckwith, M.D., Boathouse, 2009 ($7.2 million)
  
• Kinnick Stadium field drainage system and FieldTurf, 2009 ($2 million)
  
• UI Recreation Building locker room renovation, 2009 ($3.25 million)
  
• Kinnick Stadium renovation, 2006 ($89 million)
  
• Soccer Field, 2006 ($400,000)
  
• Grant Field, 2006 ($1.5 million)
  
• Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex, 2006 ($2.5 million of $14 million)
  
• Russell and Ann Gerdin Athletic Learning Center, 2003 ($5 million)
  
• Ronald D. and Margaret L. Kenyon Football Practice Facility, 2002 ($1.8 million)
  
• UI Athletics Hall of Fame/Roy G. Karro Building, 2002 ($6 million)
  

  
  

• The UI's intercollegiate athletics program is, arguably, the most visible public relations tool available to the University of Iowa. Hawkeye teams will entertain (in person) more than 1 million spectators, visitors, and guests in intercollegiate athletics facilities during the 2011-12 year with millions more watching on television, listening on radio, or watching, listening, and/or reading about the Hawkeyes on the world wide web and other portable devices.
  

• More than 36 million friends and alumni of the University, fans of the Iowa Hawkeyes and fans of college football watched the 13 games played by the 2010 Iowa football team live on national television.
  

• Every game played by the UI men's basketball team is available to a national audience thanks to agreements managed by the Big Ten Conference with CBS, the ESPN family of networks, and the Big Ten Network.
  

• Women's basketball, wrestling, volleyball, field hockey, women's gymnastics, softball and baseball are just some of the sports that have benefitted directly from the significant number of regular season events televised live to a national audience by the Big Ten Network.
  

• A record 3.9 million unique visitors downloaded almost 23 million pages of information from hawkeyesports.com, the official world wide web site of the Iowa Hawkeyes, in 2010-11.
  

• The UI Athletics Department currently ranks sixth nationally and second among its Big Ten Conference peers in utilizing the popular social media web site, "Facebook," as a means to communicate with friends and fans with more than 380,000 Facebook "friends."
  

• The UI Athletics Department currently ranks sixth nationally and second among its Big Ten Conference peers in utilizing the popular social media web site, "Twitter," as a means to communicate with friends and fans with more than 26,000* Twitter "followers."
  

• The Department either stages directly or is directly involved in the staging of hundreds of outreach events annually on behalf of the University ranging from the 30-plus National I-Club banquet events each spring that touch more thousands of friends of the University to numerous instructional clinics and seminars staged for youth and coaches in Iowa City and across the state and region.
  

• Each year, thousands of school-age children are introduced to the University of Iowa campus through several Hawkeye Sports camps. In addition to the young people experiencing the University and our community, the camps generate significant income for UI Residence Housing and Dining Services. In 2010-11, the Department paid nearly $425,000 to UI Residence Services to house and feed camp participants.
  

• The Department operates award-winning Finkbine Golf Course as an educational, recreational, intercollegiate athletics, community-outreach facility without any financial support from the University. In excess of 25,000 rounds of golf are played at Finkbine annually.
  

• Almost $70 million of officially licensed merchandise featuring trademarks of the UI and the Iowa Hawkeyes and manufactured by more than 600 licensees managed by the UI was sold at retail last year in the United States and around the world.
  

• The UI Athletics Department has been a campus leader in diversity/minority recruitment. In 2011-12, more than 9 percent of its staff is represented by ethnic minorities.
  

• The construction of the new practice facility for the UI's football team paired with the removal of the current indoor facility - the "Bubble" - will result in an increase in parking available for use by UI faculty and staff including staff of University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics when construction of the practice facility is completed late in the summer of 2012.
  

• The UI Athletics Department contributed $9 million to the construction of the $69 million Campus Wellness and Recreation Center, the new home of the UI men's and women's swimming and diving programs and the UI's new recreation facility for UI students, faculty, staff and the greater Iowa City community.
  

• The UI Athletics Department shares several facilities with the UI Department of Recreational Services for activities such as intramurals and special events.