Fast Facts About Kalamazoo College

  • 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 29 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 Integrated 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 the percentage of 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 44 dynamic colleges that excel at developing potential, values and initiative, and provide the foundation for success beyond college
  • 1,398 students from 39 states and 29 countries; 32 percent domestic students of color
  • Class of 2024 average ACT of 27, average SAT of 1271. Kalamazoo College is a test optional school
  • 98 percent of students receive need-based and/or merit-based financial aid; 24 percent receive Pell Grants
  • 13-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio
  • 95 percent of full-time faculty hold Ph.D. or terminal degree
  • Annual tuition, fees, room and board for 2020-21: $65,304
  • Endowment $243,580,141 as of June 30, 2020
  • Member of Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the oldest collegiate athletics conference in the country
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Last updated September 29, 2021