Some lawmakers are proposing stricter medical and dental college admission rules at Iowa City-based University of Iowa, reports The Gazette.
Some Republican lawmakers recently voiced concerns over how universities are spending taxpayer dollars, according to The Gazette.
House Study Bill 168 would increase legislative oversight of the University of Iowa medical and dentistry college admissions, requiring both schools to get three-fourths of their students from Iowa and report back annually on where graduates go after they leave.
Of the UI College of Dentistry's 2020 class of 82, 67 percent were from Iowa.
In a November 2019 report, Iowa's Board of Regents found about 40 percent of students attending its universities came from out of state in the 2018 budget year. The report estimates student spending generated $232.9 million "in added income for the state economy in FY 2017-18, which supported 5,485 jobs in Iowa."