Grinnell College Overview

Located in Grinnell, Iowa, Grinnell College is a private not-for-profit institution. The surrounding location of Grinnell is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

What Is Grinnell College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Grinnell since the student to facuty ratio is 9 to 1.
• The highest award offered at Grinnell is the bachelor's degree.
• In a recent academic period80% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Grinnell bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $62,830 a year. That's about 54% more than their peers at other schools.
• On average, it takes about 4.1 years for students from Grinnell to earn a bachelor's degree. This is excellent when compared to the average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Grinnell College?

Contact details for Grinnell are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1121 Park Street, Grinnell, IA 50112-1690
Phone:	641-269-4000
Website:	www.grinnell.edu

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How Do I Get Into Grinnell?

You can apply to Grinnell online at: www.grinnell.edu/admission/apply

Admission Requirements for Grinnell

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	5
High School Rank	5
High School Transcript	1
College Prep Program	5
Recommendations	5
SAT or ACT Scores	5
TOEFL	1

How Hard Is It To Get Into Grinnell?

The acceptance rate at Grinnell is 11%, which means the school is highly selective when deciding who will be admitted and who won't. Even if you have great grades and test scores, that may not be enough. So be sure to look for ways to make your application memorable.

Approximately 42% of accepted students are men and 57% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 9%, and the acceptance rate for women is 12%.

Average Test Scores

About 28% of students accepted to Grinnell submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 680 and 750. Math scores were between 700 and 780.

Grinnell received ACT scores from 27% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 32 and 35. Math scores were between 27 and 0. Composite scores were between 31 and 34.

Can I Afford Grinnell College?

The overall average net price of Grinnell is $41,131. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Grinnell, approximately 15% of students took out student loans averaging $7,707 a year. That adds up to $30,828 over four years for those students.

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Grinnell College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,493 undergraduate students at Grinnell, with 1,459 being full-time and 34 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,459 full-time undergraduates at Grinnell, 47% are male and 53% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Grinnell College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	115
Black or African American	69
Hispanic or Latino	135
White	734
International Students	281
Other Races/Ethnicities	125

Geographic Diversity

Iowa students aren't the only ones who study at Grinnell College. At this time, 37 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 50 countries are represented at Grinnell. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, India, and South Korea.

Grinnell College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	TOTAL
Computer Science	62	62
Economics	54	54
General Biology	43	43
Political Science & Government	40	40
Sociology	36	36
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	35	35
General English Literature	34	34
Mathematics	33	33
Child Development & Psychology	24	24
Romance Languages	23	23
Ethnic Studies	17	17
Physics	17	17
Anthropology	14	14
History	12	12
Philosophy	12	12
Music	11	11
Fine & Studio Arts	9	9
Classical Languages & Literature	7	7
Germanic Languages	7	7
Religious Studies	7	7
Chemistry	7	7
Drama & Theater Arts	7	7
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	6	6
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	4	4
East Asian Languages	3	3
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other)	2	2
Other Computer & Information Sciences	1	1
Other Statistics	1	1
Other Psychology	0	0
TOTAL	528	528

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
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