Grinnell, By the Numbers
- 1,500 students
- Most classes have less than 20 students
- 10 percent international, 15 percent students of color
- More than 55 percent of students study off campus during academic career
- 27 majors, 11 concentrations
- Over 500 course offerings every semester
- 9:1 student/faculty ratio
- 96 percent of faculty lives near campus
- 52 percent of students complete at least one independent study course
- More than 70 study abroad programs around the world
- 3,000 internship opportunities in the United States and abroad
- Beautiful Joe Rosenfield '25 Campus Center, the heart of the campus community
- Burling Library contains 1,000,000 books and documents
- 237,000-square-foot Noyce Science Center under renovation
- State-of-the-art Creative Computing Lab, with 20 fully loaded Macs
- Commodious theatre and visual arts studios in the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts
- World-class exhibitions at the Faulconer Gallery
- 500+ free events each year
- 100+ student organizations
- 15 student art and music organizations
- Major (and free) concerts, productions, and lectures each year
- 18 men's and women's varsity sports
- NCAA Division III competition
- State-of-the-art athletic facilities
- One-third of students engage in varsity athletics
- In the top 1 percent of colleges and universities for PhDs per graduate
- 36 percent of alumni are active donors; 66 percent have given recently