Top Ranked Programs
Grinnell College's program mix is anchored in Social Sciences, a signature consistent with its identity as a small liberal arts college in Iowa. Computer Science is the largest program by graduate count, with 56 graduates, followed by Biochemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Molecular Biology with 48 graduates, Mathematics with 48 graduates, Economics with 46 graduates, and Biology, General with 40 graduates. The mix spans Social Sciences (21% of graduates), Arts (7%), and other STEM fields (6%), reflecting a broadly humanistic curriculum with meaningful quantitative depth. Computer Science anchors the institution's strongest aggregate financial outcomes, combining enrollment scale with competitive median earnings four years after enrollment. Among the highest-earning programs, Azimuth ranks Economics #39 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions, with 46 graduates earning $110,724. Azimuth ranks Computer Science #119 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions, with 56 graduates earning $109,892, and Political Science ranks #86 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions, with 38 graduates earning $68,518. These programs deliver the institution's strongest direct-to-workforce earnings outcomes. Several of Grinnell College's most popular programs — including Computer Science and Biochemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Molecular Biology — are grad-school-dependent pathways where four-year earnings undercount the longer-term trajectory of graduates who continue to law school, graduate study, or professional programs. Economics and Biology, General, by contrast, are more direct-to-workforce fields where median earnings four years after enrollment of $110,724 and $56,275 respectively reflect near-term labor-market outcomes.