[5] Annual enrollment is approximately 1,550 students, and the university has more than over 14,000 total alumni in all 50 states.

Still College and Infirmary of Osteopathy & Surgery in downtown Des Moines.

In 1971, the Dietz Diagnostic Center, then a specialty clinic, began operation.

[8][9] In 2005, the university opened a $24 million Student Education Center, with a medical library, new classrooms, study rooms, a cafeteria and wellness center with a teaching kitchen and basketball court.

[10] After Branstad retired in 2009 in order to pursue running again for governor of Iowa,[11] Stephen Dengle was selected to serve as Interim President for the second time.

[13] In 2018, DMU became the first medical school to partner with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to offer its provider training program to D.O.

[16] In 2019, the university moved to expand its campus with additional parking and a generator, which resulted in conflict with neighbors regarding flood risk concerns.

[17] Thereafter, the university announced plans to relocate to West Des Moines by 2023.

[17][19] The university relocated to its new West Des Moines campus in June 2023.