Grinnell College
2023-24
The 2023-24 Common Data Set for Grinnell College — admissions, cost, and aid, as the school published them. Download the original file. This archive discovered the file on Apr 15, 2026. The school did not send Last-Modified and the file has no embedded date. Subscribe via RSS.
Acceptance Rate
12.7%
Applications
9,988
Admitted
1,266
SAT Composite
1440-1530
SAT Math
720-790
SAT Reading
698-760
ACT Composite
31-34
Federal outcomes
Federal data from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, vintage 2022-23. Outcomes reflect earlier cohorts than the CDS year shown elsewhere on this page.
$62,830
10 yrs after enrollment
88%
6-year completion
$17,648
sticker minus grants
$17,500
federal loans only
4%
FSA · as-of late May 2026 · not the official cohort default rate
Nonpayment is the share of Direct Loan borrowers who entered repayment January 2020–May 2025 and were 90+ days delinquent at the FSA pull. It is not the official cohort default rate.
The numbers, as published
399numbers from this report.
General Information
5 TABLESFirst Name:Carlie D.
Last Name:VanWilligen
Title:Director of Institutional Research
Office:Office of Analytics and Institutional Research
Address Line 1:1103 Park Street, #116
Zipcode50,112
Country:United States
Phone:641-269-4307
Email Address:vanwilli@grinnell.edu
City:Grinnell
StateIowa
Name of College/University:Grinnell College
Street Address Line 1:1227 Park Street, 1st Floor
CityGrinnell
StateIowa
Zip50,112
Country:United States
Main Phone Number (Area Code)641
Main Phone Number:269-4000
WWW Home Page Address:www.grinnell.edu
Admissions Phone Number (Area Code):641
Admissions Phone Number:269-3600
Admissions Email Address:admission@grinnell.edu
If you have a diversity, equity, and inclusion office or department, please provide the URL of the corresponding Web page:https://www.grinnell.edu/about/leadership/offices-services/dei
Enrollment And Persistence
2 TABLESFirst-Time, First-Year Admission
6 TABLESWait List
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list:2,220
Number accepting a place on the waiting list:1,188
Number of wait-listed students admitted:3
Total academic units4.00
Mathematics4.00
Science3.00
Of these, units that must be lab3.00
Foreign language3.00
Social studies3.00
History3.00
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing: 700-80075
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing: 600-69924
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing: 500-5991
SAT Math: 700-80088
SAT Math: 600-69911
SAT Math: 500-5991
ACT Composite: 30-3680
ACT Composite: 24-2917
ACT Composite: 18-233
ACT Composite: Below 6100
Percent in top tenth of high school graduating class64
Percent in top quarter of high school graduating class30
Percent in top half of high school graduating class5
Percent in bottom half of high school graduating class1
If yes, maximum period of postponement:-
Transfer Admission
4 TABLESDoes your institution enroll transfer students? (If no, please skip to Section E)Yes
If yes, may transfer students earn advanced standing credit by transferring credits earned from course work completed at other colleges/universities?Yes
Must a transfer applicant have a minimum number of credits completed or else must apply as an entering first-year student?No
High school transcriptRequired of All
College transcript(s)Required of All
Essay or personal statementRequired of All
InterviewNot Required
Standardized test scoresRequired of All
Statement of good standing from prior institution(s)Not Required
Fall Closing Date: Month3
Spring Closing Date: Month11
Fall Reply Date: Month6
Spring Rpely Date: Month12
Spring Reply Date: Day15
Fall Closing Date:Day1
Spring Closing Date: Day1
Fall Reply Date: Day1
Minimum number of credits that transfers must complete at your institution to earn a bachelor’s degree:62
Academic Offerings and Policies
1 TABLEDouble majorX
Dual enrollmentX
Honors ProgramX
Independent studyX
InternshipsX
Liberal arts/career combinationX
Student-designed majorX
Study abroadX
Teacher certification programX
Undergraduate ResearchX
Student Life
3 TABLESPercent who are from out of state (exclude international/nonresidents from the numerator and denominator)91%
Percent of males who join fraternities0%
Percent of females who join sororities0%
Percent who live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing100%
Percent who live off campus or commute0%
Percent of students age 25 and older0%
Percent who are from out of state (exclude international/nonresidents from the numerator and denominator)91%
Percent of males who join fraternities0%
Percent of females who join sororities0%
Percent who live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing88%
Percent who live off campus or commute12%
Percent of students age 25 and older0%
Average age of full-time students18
Average age of all students (full- and part-time)18
Average age of full-time students20
Average age of all students (full- and part-time)23
Campus MinistriesX
Choral groupsX
Concert bandX
DanceX
Drama/theaterX
International Student OrganizationX
Jazz bandX
Literary magazineX
Marching bandX
Model UNX
Music ensemblesX
Musical theaterX
OperaX
Pep bandX
Radio stationX
Student governmentX
Student-run film societyX
Symphony orchestraX
Television stationX
YearbookX
Annual Expenses
4 TABLESPlease provide the URL of your institution’s net price calculator:[https://www.grinnell.edu/admission/financial-aid/estimate-aid](https://www.grinnell.edu/admission/financial-aid/estimate-aid)
Financial Aid
7 TABLESFederal$2,142,783
State all states, not only the state in which your institution is located$300,448
Institutional: Endowed scholarships, annual gifts and tuition funded grants, awarded by the college, excluding athletic aid and tuition waivers (which are reported below).$60,779,078
Scholarships/grants from external sources (e.g. Kiwanis, National Merit) not awarded by the college$677,783
Total Scholarships/Grants$63,900,092
Student loans from all sources (excluding parent loans)$0
Federal Work-Study$668,464
State and other (e.g., institutional) work-study/employment (Note: Excludes Federal Work-Study captured above.)$1,256,851
Total Self-Help$1,925,315
Parent Loans$0
Tuition Waivers Note: Reporting is optional. Report tuition waivers in this row if you choose to report them. Do not report tuition waivers elsewhere.$629,328
Athletic Awards$0
Federal$0
State all states, not only the state in which your institution is located$0
Institutional: Endowed scholarships, annual gifts and tuition funded grants, awarded by the college, excluding athletic aid and tuition waivers (which are reported below).$9,940,083
Scholarships/grants from external sources (e.g. Kiwanis, National Merit) not awarded by the college$1,430,876
Total Scholarships/Grants$11,370,959
Student loans from all sources (excluding parent loans)$0
State and other (e.g., institutional) work-study/employment (Note: Excludes Federal Work-Study captured above.)$1,154,685
Total Self-Help$1,154,685
Parent Loans$0
Tuition Waivers Note: Reporting is optional. Report tuition waivers in this row if you choose to report them. Do not report tuition waivers elsewhere.$733,670
Athletic Awards$0
Provide the number of students in the 2024 undergraduate class who started at your institution as first-time students and received a bachelor's degree between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. Exclude students who transferred into your institution.2,023
If your institution has recently implemented any major financial aid policy, program, or initiative to make your institution more affordable to incoming students such as replacing loans with grants, or waiving costs for families below a certain income level please provide details:Are these policies related to the COVID-19 pandemic? ☐ Yes ☐ No Common Data Set 2023-2024 I. INSTRUCTIONAL FACULTY AND CLASS SIZE I-1. Please report the number of instructional faculty members in each category for Fall 2023. Include faculty who are on your institution’s payroll on the census date your institution uses for IPEDS/AAUP. The following definition of full-time instructional faculty is used by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in its annual Faculty Compensation Survey (the part time definitions are not used by AAUP). Instructional Faculty is defined as those members of the instructional-research staff whose major regular assignment is instruction, including those with released time for research. Use the chart below to determine inclusions and exclusions: Full-time Part-time Include only Instructional faculty in preclinical and clinical medicine, faculty who are not if they teach A paid (e.g., those who donate their services or are in the military), or research- Exclude one or more only faculty, post-doctoral fellows, or pre-doctoral fellows non-clinical credit courses Include if Administrative officers with titles such as dean of students, librarian, registrar, they teach B coach, and the like, even though they may devote part of their time to Exclude one or more classroom instruction and may have faculty status non-clinical credit courses C Other administrators/staff who teach one or more non-clinical credit courses even though they do not have faculty status Exclude Include D Undergraduate or graduate students who assist in the instruction of courses, but have titles such as teaching assistant, teaching fellow, and the like Exclude Exclude E Faculty on sabbatical or leave with pay Include Exclude F Faculty on leave without pay Exclude Exclude G Replacement faculty for faculty on sabbatical leave or leave with pay Exclude Include Full-time instructional faculty: faculty employed on a full-time basis for instruction (including those with released time for research) Part-time instructional faculty: Adjuncts and other instructors being paid solely for part -time classroom instruction. Also includes full-time faculty teaching less than two semesters, three quarters, two trimesters, or two four-month sessions. Employees who are not considered full-time instruction faculty but who teach one or more non- clinical credit courses may be counted as part -time faculty. Minority faculty: includes faculty who designate themselves as Black, non-Hispanic; American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, or Hispanic. Doctorate: includes such degrees as Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Education, Doctor of J uridical Science, and Doctor of Public Health in any field such as arts, sciences, education, engineering, business, and public administration. Also includes terminal degrees formerly designated as “first professional,” including dentistry (DDS or DMD), me dicine (MD), optometry (OD), osteopathic medicine (DO), pharmacy (DPharm or BPharm), podiatric medicine (DPM), veterinary medicine (DVM), chiropractic (DC or DCM), or law (JD). Terminal master’s degree: a master’s degree that is considered the highest d egree in a field: example, M. Arch (in architecture) and MFA (master of fine arts in art or theater). Common Data Set 2023-2024 Full-time Part-time Total A Total number of instructional faculty 186 35 221 B Total number who are members of minority groups 57 360 C Total number who are women 93 20 113 D Total number who are men 93 15 108 E Total number who are nonresidents (international) 0 00 F Total number with doctorate, or other terminal degree 182 16 198 G Total number whose highest degree is a master’s but not a terminal master’s 1 14 15 H Total number whose highest degree is a bachelor’s 1 23 I Total number whose highest degree is unknown or other (Note: Items f, g, h, and i must sum up to item a.) 2 35 J Total number in stand-alone graduate/professional programs in which faculty teach virtually only graduate-level students 0 00 I-2. Student to Faculty Ratio Report the Fall 2023 ratio of full-time equivalent students (full-time plus 1/3 part time) to full-time equivalent instructional faculty (full time plus 1/3 p art time). In the ratio calculations, exclude both faculty and students in stand-alone graduate or professional programs such as medicine, law, veterinary, dentistry, social work, business, or public health in which faculty teach virtually only graduate level students. • Do not count undergraduate or graduate student teaching assistants as faculty. Fall 2023 Student to Faculty ratio: 9 to 1 (based on 1730 students and 198 faculty) Common Data Set 2023-2024 I-3. Undergraduate Class Size In the table below, please use the following definitions to report information about the size of classes and class sections offered in the Fall 2023 term. Please include classes that have been moved online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Class Sections: A class section is an organized course offered for credit, identified by discipline and number, meeting at a stated time or times in a classroom or similar setting, and not a subsection such as a laboratory or discussion session. Undergraduate class sections are defined as any sections in which at least one degree- seeking undergraduate student is enrolled for credit. Exclude distance learning classes and noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Exclude students in independent study, co-operative programs, internships, foreign language taped tutor sessions, practicums, and all students in one-on-one classes. Each class section should be counted only once and should not be duplicated because of course catalog cross-listings. Class Subsections: A class subsection includes any subsection of a course, such as laboratory, recitation, and discussion subsections that are supplementary in nature and are scheduled to meet separately from th e lecture portion of the course. Undergraduate subsections are defined as any subsections of courses in which degree - seeking undergraduate students enrolled for credit. As above, exclude noncredit classes and individual instruction such as dissertation or thesis research, music instruction, or one-to-one readings. Each class subsection should be counted only once and should not be duplicated because of cross -listings. Using the above definitions, please report for each of the following class-size intervals the number of class sections and class subsections offered in Fall 2023. For example, a lecture class with 800 students who met at another time in 40 separate labs with 20 students should be counted once in the “100+” column in the class section column and 40 times under the “20-29” column of the class subsections table. Number of Class Sections with Undergraduates Enrolled Undergraduate Class Size (provide numbers) 2-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-99 100+ Total CLASS 84 190 140 91 0 0 424 SECTIONS 2-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-99 100+ Total CLASS SUB- 19 12 4 00 0 0 35 SECTIONS Common Data Set 2023-2024 J. Disciplinary areas of DEGREES CONFERRED Degrees conferred between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 For each of the following discipline areas, provide the percentage of diplomas/certificates, associate, and bachelor’s degrees awarded. To determine the percentage, use majors, not headcount (e.g., students with one degree but a double major will be represented twice). C alculate the percentage from your institution’s IPEDS Completions by using the sum of 1 st and 2nd majors for each CIP code as the numerator and the sum of t he Grand Total by 1st Majors and the Grand Total by 2nd major as the denominator. If you prefer, you can compute the percentages using 1st majors only. Diploma/ CIP 2020 Category Certificates Associate Bachelor's Categories to Include Agriculture 01 Natural resources and conservation 03 Architecture 04 Area, ethnic, and gender studies 3.22 05 Communication/journalism 09 Communication technologies 10 Computer and information sciences 11.93 11 Personal and culinary services 12 Education 13 Engineering 14 Engineering technologies 15 Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 8.33 16 Family and consumer sciences 19 Law/legal studies 22 English 6.44 23 Liberal arts/general studies 24 Library science 25 Biological/life sciences 15.15 26 Mathematics and statistics 6.44 27 Military science and military technologies 28 and 29 Interdisciplinary studies 1.14 30 Parks and recreation 31 Philosophy and religious studies 3.60 38 Theology and religious vocations 39 Physical sciences 4.55 40 Science technologies 41 Psychology 4.55 42 Common Data Set 2023-2024 Diploma/ CIP 2020 Category Certificates Associate Bachelor's Categories to Include Homeland Security, law enforcement, firefighting, and 43 protective services Public administration and social services 44 Social sciences 27.27 45 Construction trades 46 Mechanic and repair technologies 47 Precision production 48 Transportation and materials moving 49 Visual and performing arts 5.11 50 Health professions and related programs 51 Business/marketing 52 History 2.27 54 Other TOTAL (should be = 100%) 0.00 0.00 100.00
Instructional Faculty And Class Size
2 TABLESFall 2025 Student to Faculty ratio9
based on ____ students1,730
Disciplinary Areas of Degrees Conferred
3 TABLESSource Document
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