- Mission: to prepare graduates to better understand, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world
- Founded in 1833, among the 100 oldest institutions in the country
- Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a mid-sized city just 35 miles from Lake Michigan and approximately 140 miles from both Detroit and Chicago
- Nationally known for the K-Plan:
- Depth and Breadth in the Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Learning Through Experience
- International Engagement
- Senior Individualized Project
- Strong focus on Experiential Education:
- 71 percent of K students participate in Center for Career and Professional Development programs and services (career coaching, networking receptions, career workshops, internships, externships and career treks, among others)
- 70 percent of students participate in a meaningful, immersive international and intercultural experience — often characterized by home stays and an Integrative Cultural Research Project — in 56 programs in 28 countries on six continents
- About two-thirds of students participate in community-based courses and student-led co-curricular programs through community engagement and service-learning projects
- All students engage in a Senior Individualized Project, an in-depth research or creative project done in the senior year
- Kalamazoo College ranks in the top 2 percent among all U.S. colleges and universities surveyed for students ultimately earning a doctorate, according to the National Science Foundation.
- One of the Colleges That Change Lives, book by Loren Pope, higher education expert and former New York Times education editor, describing a group of 40 dynamic colleges that excel at developing potential, values and initiative, and provide the foundation for success beyond college
- 1,467 students from 39 states and 28 countries; 32.8 percent domestic students of color
- Class of 2022 average ACT of 27.39, average SAT of 1290. Kalamazoo College is a test optional school
- 98 percent of students receive need-based and/or merit-based financial aid; 22.8 percent receive Pell Grants
- 13-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio
- 96 percent of full-time faculty hold Ph.D. or terminal degree
- Annual tuition, fees, room and board for 2019-20: $60,546
- Endowment as of June 30, 2018: $240,993,994
- Member of Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the oldest collegiate athletics conference in the country
- Class Profile Data
Last updated Jan. 7, 2019