21 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university

How does art tell the story of humankind? Through visual and written analysis, deep research, and interdisciplinary studies, you’ll gain an understanding of the global impact art has had on humanity and discover how it has both shaped and responded to individuals and societies throughout time with the Art History degree at Grinnell College.

As an interdisciplinary field of study, Religious Studies degree at Grinnell College offers you an intensely international experience as well as research and global learning opportunities that open an array of potential career paths.

A rigorous curriculum within the Physics degree at Grinnell College coupled with expert faculty, advanced facilities, and research opportunities means you’ll develop expertise in classical and modern physics theory.

Sociology degree at Grinnell College is the study of human behavior, how we interact and organize ourselves, and how it all shifts over time.

The use of statistical methods to acquire useful information and make decisions from data is becoming an indispensable skill in a wide variety of fields and careers. The Statistics programme at Grinnell College focuses on learning from data in the presence of uncertainty.

 As a Psychology major at at Grinnell College, you work closely with peers and professors to learn how these systems interact to help explain human behavior.

As a student member of the Mathematics degree at Grinnell College, you will be part of a dynamic group which includes faculty mentors who collaborate with colleagues around the world.

With the Political Science degree at at Grinnell College you will start with a deep immersion into a broadly informed, inquiry-led curriculum. Fueled by mentored research and rich opportunities to study abroad, you will gain the ability to think critically and communicate complex ideas from a range of perspectives.

As a Biology major at Grinnell College, the world is your laboratory. You’ll join other creative thinkers in an innovative program that encourages you to study multiple disciplines and think like a biologist from day one. 

Embrace the cultures of China and Japan with the Chinese and Japanese degree at Grinnell College.

Whether you want to build problem-solving skills, pursue graduate work, or explore a career in one of many computing-related fields, the Computer Science major at Grinnell College will ground you in the fundamentals and the underlying theory.

As a History major at Grinnell College, you’ll learn to formulate complex questions about human events.

In the Grinnell College Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies degree you can develop as an artist-scholar who learns and practices an integrated and holistic approach to making performance.

To study Philosophy program at Grinnell College is to ask the questions that thinking human beings everywhere have asked, in one way or another: Who am I? What can I know? What should I do? What can I hope?

As an English major at Grinnell College, you’ll develop your own questions and directions as you explore the traditions of American, African American, ethnic American, British, Irish, and global postcolonial literatures.

Music is an essential part of human life. It has been used for millennia to bring people to tears, to laughter, and inspire a sense of solidarity. The Music degree at Grinnell College can help you create, perform, understand, and critically examine the music that matters to you and explore communities around the world, past and present.

The Chemistry major at Grinnell College you’ll gain hands-on experience with modern instrumentation as you couple creative thought with experimentation.

Classics degree at Grinnell College has been a cornerstone of the liberal arts and continues to play an important role in that tradition.

When you take a broad perspective on humankind, you’ll always have something new to learn, often through first-hand fieldwork. The Anthropology degree at Grinnell College is concerned with people and cultures around the world, past and present, as well as our closest primate relatives. 

By studying Economics degree at Grinnell College, you’ll learn to think critically about individual and collective decisions over the use of resources and how these decisions can transform societies, for better or worse.