The Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, established as the College of Commerce in 1921, is one of the oldest and top ranked business schools in the United States. The College was the first academic division at the University of Iowa to be named for an alumnus, Henry B. Tippie, a 1949 accounting graduate from Belle Plaine, Iowa. The College is housed in the Pappajohn Business Building in Iowa City, named for Des Moines venture capitalist John Pappajohn, a 1952 graduate of the College.