Science/Noyce Fun Facts

	Majors		% earning graduate degree 1991-2010 (20 years)	Class 2012		Notes
Discipline	Class 2014	Class 2015	% earning graduate degree 1991-2010 (20 years)	w/Internships	w/Research	Notes
Biology	23	39	43%	29.0%	77.4%	Includes 79 Ph.D.s, 53 MD.s, 4 DVM.s
Biological Chemistry	30	45	25%	56.3%	81.3%	Until recently students chose either biology or chemistry
Chemistry	18	22	48%	15.4%	100.0%	Recent enrollments up substantially
Computer Science	15	16	25%	50.0%	83.3%	High salaries provide strong pull to industry: US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates about 40,000 computing graduates/year nationwide for roughly 135,000 openings/year in computing
Mathematics and Statistics	21	18	44%	25.0%	75.0%	Graduate studies include pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, social science applications, etc.
Physics	11	19	48%	28.6%	71.4%	Graduate degrees almost evenly split between physical sciences and engineering; diverse other areas also represented
Psychology	38	45	46%	57.9%	57.9%	Grinnell's program experimental; broad range of graduate programs

Numbers do not reflect General Science majors who emphasize one of the various science disciplines.
Interdisciplinary areas of Environmental Science, Neuroscience, and Technology Studies not counted, as data not available.
Only completed graduate degrees counted; recent graduates or students returning to graduate work may be enrolled, but not counted here.
In counting graduate degrees, many (but not all) programs in the United States included; no programs outside the United States included.
Percentages for internships and research experiences for the class of 2012 from Grinnell's Career Development Office.

Over 85% of students who enter Grinnell intending to pursue a science major do so — a rate several times higher than the national average.
Over one-third of Grinnell students graduate with a science major.
Science Ph.D.s: Grinnell ranks eighth on a per-capita basis among all U.S. higher education institutions in producing graduates who go on to earn science doctorates, according to the National Science Foundation.
- Grinnell ranks 9th (of all US institutions) per capita in the biological sciences.
- Grinnell ranks 11th in mathematics and statistics.
Ph.D.s in all Fields: Grinnell ranks seventh in the nation in the percentage of graduates who earn Ph.D.'s in all academic fields, according to the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium with data from the National Science Foundation.

created 24 June 2013
last revised 25 June 2013 previous